[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A friend of mine asked the other day: “How do you find songs? and how do you do vocal arrangements of them?”   Photo by Jorge Fr...

for SATB Chorus and Piano Words by Ada Negri: Public Domain. Music by Ottorino Respighi: Public Domain. English Singing Translation and Arrangement © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved Synthesized acc...  morefor SATB Chorus and Piano Words by Ada Negri: Public Domain. Music by Ottorino Respighi: Public Domain. English Singing Translation and Arrangement © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved Synthesized accompaniment and scrolling score in search of a live performance. The sheet music is available from the composer and from Sheet Music Plus.  

Noel by Théophile Gautier setting for two altos and guitar poem translated into English by S N Solomons, music composed and performed (multitrack) by D W Solomons (dwsChorale) The sky is dark, the earth is white, oh bells ring out with joy Je...  moreNoel by Théophile Gautier setting for two altos and guitar poem translated into English by S N Solomons, music composed and performed (multitrack) by D W Solomons (dwsChorale) The sky is dark, the earth is white, oh bells ring out with joy Jesus is born, the Virgin quiet shelters her baby boy. Noel Noel Noel bells ring out with joy! No wraps No festooned curtains spread to shield the child from frost nothing but flimsy spider webs trail from the beams aloft. He shivers in that cold stable this Jesus child so dear, and so to warm him in the cradle, the ass and ox draw near. The snow hangs down in lacy fringe. But far above the heavens swell reveal the angel choir that sings to men Noel Noel  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I love my job, I really do. I just need some space and a bunch of people and we will make beautiful music together.   Photo by Heather Jennings &...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Most of the people who come to my singing workshops are in their 50s and pretty much all of them have a story to tell about the time someone told the...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Most choirs charge their singers to be a member (‘subs’). The amount can vary a lot from choir to choir.     What’s ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   We’ve all seen it: a timid, slouched, nervous person approaches the microphone. We expect disaster. They open their mouth and the most amazing, beauti...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I was running a one-day workshop a while back and it seemed to me that the whole thing wasn’t gelling. People seemed uninspired, energy was low, and i...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A few years ago I spent two weeks travelling through the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. I was really looking forward to hearing plenty of tr...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I get regular emails from people asking questions about songs and copyright. I’m certainly no expert, but I have written a few articLes that you migh...