[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]As we saw last week, many singers struggle with finding (and keeping) their starting notes. photo by Albin Olsson What can make it even harder is if a man ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] You get what you ask for, so be careful how you seek feedback!   photo by Howard Lake   When designing feedback forms, less is more. Here&r...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A few years ago I started a discussion on my blog about Why men won’t sing.     time for another song by willposh   At around t...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   My real love is to teach a lot of relatively simple songs so people can spend more time singing and less time learning in a workshop (see We’ve come ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I run singing workshops all over the place (why not book me and try one?).   Photo by C. Moses   At some places the workshops are full and...

 [A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Back in 2012 The Guardian started a project called Six Songs of Me that asks which songs matter most to each of us on a personal level (the pro...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Many choirs use written notation to learn and perform songs. Over time singers can come to depend on having the dots in front of them.   pho...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Some choirs don’t perform at all (see choirs that don’t perform). But most choirs, at some point, will want to share their hard work with...

Psalm 70 (Revised Standard Version, with doxology) Musical setting for mixed choir (SAATB) by David W Solomons All parts performed by Matthew Curtis - www.choraltracks.com

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Last week I wrote about why you shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss songs that aren’t in English. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) This week ...