[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   It always amazes Me how surprised people are that a group of strangers can sing harmony together in just a few minutes. It’s not necessary to k...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   SoMe years ago I did soMe voice-only arrangeMents of Queen songs for a weekend workshop. I ended up listening to a lot of Queen recordings!   ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   It’s usually the case that professional singers have had soMe sort of training in a particular singing technique.   photo by Kevin Cea...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] SoMe teachers find themselves having to lead singing sessions at their school. But often they don’t have that much experience of teaching songs ...

Fifteenth and final moveMent of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. Sung by the Les Sirènes Female Chamber choir and accompanied by the Les Sirènes Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Nunn. St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, 26/06/11.

PerforMed by: Male choir "Brodosplit"; Male choir and String Orchestra of Arts Academy, University of Split with associate musicians. Conductor: Vlado Sunko Recorded at: Croatian National Theatre in Split, Croatia, on December 2, 2013; Mimara Muse...  morePerforMed by: Male choir "Brodosplit"; Male choir and String Orchestra of Arts Academy, University of Split with associate musicians. Conductor: Vlado Sunko Recorded at: Croatian National Theatre in Split, Croatia, on December 2, 2013; Mimara Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 12, 2014; Church of St. Anastasia in Zadar, Croatia, on May 3, 2014. MoveMents: I. Kyrie 0:39 II. Gloria 7:14 III. Credo 17:24 IV. Sanctus 30:27 V. Benedictus 35:38 VI. Agnus Dei 41:06 VII. Dona nobis pacem 44:36 credits 50:03 Production: Bernard Kahle - b.kahle@yahoo.com Split, Croatia, June 2014  less

[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   for those of us who work to school terms, it is now the sumMer holidays. Unlike us poor folk here in the UK, the sumMer break is months long i...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Last week I looked at how you get beyond the written word if you've been learning lyrics from sheets of paper.     This week I want to look a...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I’ve suddenly realised I don’t know what to call myself any more. I used to be a ‘choirmaster’ (a term I got from Gareth Malone and...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   If I get 30 singers on one of my weekend workshops soMeone will say “Gosh, what a large group!” whilst another says “Quite low numb...