[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Ever asked your choir members how they think things are going? Is there a large committee helping to run your choir? If so, you’ve realised that a ch...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Choirs are not meeting at the moment so lots of you have gone online to sing. Given that it will be just you singing at a screen, what can you do to get the ...

Brethren wants to share this musical offering with you on Christmas morning, "Then Christmas Comes". May we always "be mindful of others". Merry Christmas everyone!!!

The musical Directors of three Cornish Male Voice Choirs talk about how their choirs have coped so far during the Covid crisis.

It's a choir whose aim is to combine modern musical visions with choir music. Nowadays, classical choral singing covers only a narrow social stratum. Over the last 20 years palette of music offered by the media has been watered down on an unprecedented sc...  moreIt's a choir whose aim is to combine modern musical visions with choir music. Nowadays, classical choral singing covers only a narrow social stratum. Over the last 20 years palette of music offered by the media has been watered down on an unprecedented scale, and the frigthening fact is that human values can be found less and less in them. The Voisingers is a novel approach to each song by the newly born transcripts, a new community, a decision that evaluates and realizes - considering musical needs of young people more than ever - the further development of the world-famous Hungarian choral music  less

An introductory film to the group SESTINA with their musical director Mark Chambers

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   The way an audience responds can affect our performance. In the absence of feedback, our most negative thoughts can raise their ugly heads.   Bor...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I went to see a concert by Village Harmony this week. It was over an hour long and included an amazing variety of songs from around the world: Georgi...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] We’re always told to focus on the meaning of the lyrics when singing a song in order to communicate it properly and to give some emotion to our delivery...

The New Jersey Chamber Singers (NJCS) perform Stars by Eriks Esenvalds www.njchambersingers.org Artistic Director Reid Masters recording engineer John Baker Alone in the Night on a dark hill with pines around me, spicy and still And heaven, a he...  moreThe New Jersey Chamber Singers (NJCS) perform Stars by Eriks Esenvalds www.njchambersingers.org Artistic Director Reid Masters recording engineer John Baker Alone in the Night on a dark hill with pines around me, spicy and still And heaven, a heaven full of stars over my head white and topaz and misty red myriads with beating hearts of fire the aeons cannot vex or tire... Ah, the dome of heaven like a great hill and myriads with beating hearts of fire Heaven full of stars... I know I am honored to be witness of so much majesty... Recorded at St Pio of Pietrelcina Roman Catholic Church, 103 Washington Ave, Lavallette, NJ 08735-2351 Copyright 2014 New Jersey Chamber Singers  less