[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Last week I wrote about choosing suitable songs to arrange.   Photo by the incredible how   This week I want to get down to the nitty...

SHE FLIES for SSA vocal ensemble or small female choir. Music composed by DAVIDE RIVA Performance and recording: ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAMBER choir - Virtual Singers Text: EMILY DICKINSON To the bright east she flies, Brothers of Paradise Remit he...  moreSHE FLIES for SSA vocal ensemble or small female choir. Music composed by DAVIDE RIVA Performance and recording: ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAMBER choir - Virtual Singers Text: EMILY DICKINSON To the bright east she flies, Brothers of Paradise Remit her home, Without a change of wings, Or Love’s convenient things, Enticed to come. Fashioning what she is, Fathoming what she was, We deem we dream— And that dissolves the days Through which existence strays Homeless at home.  

The Capital Hearings perform a classic vocal jazz piece at the 2012 VoCALNation Friday night showcase. This arrangement by Gene Puerling was made famous by Manhattan Transfer. Enjoy.

Title: Soon Ah Will Be Done Performed by Angel City Chorale Artistic Director, Sue Fink Video edited by, Alex Chaloff, Annika Benitz Angel City Chorale website: http://angelcitychorale.org/ Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/AngelCityChorale

Mar. 14, 2015 Accompanist: Steven Webb http://www.prairievoices.org https://www.facebook.com/PrairieVoices https://twitter.com/_PrairieVoices

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Performed by Naomi Riemis, Silke Bauters, Jelle Smedts, Simon Callaerts and Stijn Dierckx from 'Universitair Koor Antwerpen' at their Christmas Concert "Christmas Carols With A Twist" on December 16, 2014.

Download from iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/illumination/id534355477 "Summer Song", text and music by Michael McGlynn. Available as sheet music from www.michaelmcglynn.com. solo Lynn Hilary www.anuna.ie

Chicagoland Voices performs at the Festival of the Voice on November 9, 2014. The Storm is Passing Over By Barbara Baker Directed by Jason Krigas Accompanied by Kris Hester Soloist Michael Ancheta

A sequence of settings of poetry by a monk starting out after his noviciate, performed by me with a beautiful soprano Kyrie by Sheralyn Rennert​ hovering above In this sequence of 7 sections Alun (Brother David) was approaching the end of his noviciate a...  moreA sequence of settings of poetry by a monk starting out after his noviciate, performed by me with a beautiful soprano Kyrie by Sheralyn Rennert​ hovering above In this sequence of 7 sections Alun (Brother David) was approaching the end of his noviciate and considering which order he should devote himself to. 1. Kyrie - Une heure ou deux me restent dans ce bruit sonore que tu es ... soprano and alto solos (distant and present voices) with guitar accompaniment 2. Un dernier regard car la fenêtre ouverte que tu es se clôt....soprano (still singing Kyrie) and alto with guitar accompaniment 3. Alone we are together in this place - two alto recorders and guitar with spoken voice 4. He makes men pure from their sins (words by St Paul) - two equal voices with guitar chord names 5. Kyrie eleison and Christe eleison (sung in the distance) 6. Amidst grey working days - alto and guitar 7. Four part Kyrie: Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, performed as an SATB electronic choir  less

Salvacosta perform Will Todd's 'My Lord Has Come'... Will Todd Copyright 2011 Oxford University Press Performed by Salvacosta DMB Music www.dmbmusic.co.uk www.darrenbartlett.co.uk Copyright DMB MUSIC 2016