[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] OK, I’ll admit it up front: I’m a charlatan. I have no training for the job which gives me my income. So when it comes to giving starting notes ...
[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] The other week I wrote about who your choir actually ‘belongs’ to (Whose choir is it any way?). Does it belong to the singers, the...
The link goes to an SATB version, but I have sung a lower transposition here. The video contains the words and an English translation
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] At the start of term we have an equal number of singers in each part, but by the end of term, there are always too many altos (or sopranos or tenors &ndash...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] This post is part of a series of occasional Questions and Answers. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. Bl...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] You know those people who sing all the time — when they’re cooking, hoovering, gardening, whatever? Well, I’m not one of them. ...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I often get asked this at workshops after people have struggled to get their tongues around a few foreign songs. I point out that ...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] How many times have you been standing next to someone in your choir section and realised that they’re singing something different from you? &n...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] We all have an image of the type of singer (or musical director or choir) that we think we are. There are things that we can do and things that we can&rsqu...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I wrote a post a while ago called Ask not what your choir can do for you – ask what can you do for your choir. The more you put in, the more you get ...