"Forever Young" - @Bob Dylan Performed by Cape Town Youth Choir Arranged by Stephen Carletti Conducted by Leon Starker Soloists: Lauren Patterson, Jared Henry, Kate Farquharson October 2013 Bishops Chapel, Cape Town Stream this track at:

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of Songs from traditions across th...

  Life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, without meaning to, you can get a Song or a jingle stuck in your head and end up singing or humming it for hours - or even days. On the other hand, when you are actively trying to learn a poem, lyric, or a...

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of Songs from traditions across th...

PEKTORAL Chamber Choir (Kyiv). Art director - Andriy Karpinets. First live performance of Ariel Ramirez' composition ''Mass for Peace and Justice'' (Misa por la Paz y la Justicia) in Ukraine. Solo - Dmytro Foschanka. October 18, 2011. Church of St. Al...  morePEKTORAL Chamber Choir (Kyiv). Art director - Andriy Karpinets. First live performance of Ariel Ramirez' composition ''Mass for Peace and Justice'' (Misa por la Paz y la Justicia) in Ukraine. Solo - Dmytro Foschanka. October 18, 2011. Church of St. Alexander, Kiev, Ukraine. VI International Festival "THROUGH THE CENTURIES AND THE COUNTRY". With the assistance Embassy of Argentina in Ukraine. This video contains two pieces of the Mass: 1. Introducción y Señor ten piedad de nosotros. 2. Gloria a Dios. Argentine composer, pianist and music director Ariel Ramírez composed the Mass for Peace and Justice in 1981, during the military dictatorship in Argentina. His childhood friend, the presbytery Osvaldo Catena, assembled the texts, amongst which is the peace message of Pope John Paul II of 1979. Our SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/pektoral-chamber-choir/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PektoralChoir.Ukraine  less

The Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! by Claude Debussy live in competition at the 42nd Tolosa Choral Contest on October 29, 2010 in the Teatro-Cine Leidor, Tolosa, Spain, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred. This piec...  moreThe Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! by Claude Debussy live in competition at the 42nd Tolosa Choral Contest on October 29, 2010 in the Teatro-Cine Leidor, Tolosa, Spain, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred. This piece was part of their program in the Musica Profana category for the Vocal Groups (max 16 singers) round of competition. The Vocal Artists were awarded First Prize in every category of competition they entered. Video courtesy of CIT Tolosa Choral Contest Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! by Claude Debussy Translation: God! but she is fair, graceful, good and beautiful. All are ready to praise her excellent qualities. Who could tire of her? Her beauty is ever new. God! but she is fair, graceful, good and beautiful! Nowhere does the sea look on so fair and perfect a lady or maiden. Thinking on her is but a dream. God! but she is fair!  less

Last weekend we ended a very fulfilling season with a choir party. To celebrate we all sang our version of "Seasons Of Love" from the musical Rent, lyrics by our conductor Jeanne Rabin (www.jeannerabin.com). You are all welcome to sing along (here's a li...

"Trechantira", traditional Greek Song

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Once upon a time you could only hear your favourite Song if you travelled to a live performance. It was a special, one-off, shared experience.   ...

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of Songs from traditions across th...