[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...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] Unlike many ‘traditional’ classical or church choirs, Natural Voice choirs seldom use written scores. We don‘t assuMe that singers who att...
If you are looking for a tuneful large-scale choral work to perform with your choir - you might like to consider a new SATB arrangeMent by John Whittaker of Vaughan Williams' Folk Songs of The Four Seasons' (duration 50 minutes) - which was original...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] SumMer has finally arrived in the UK. We’ve been praying for sunshine for so long, but now it’s just a little TOO hot! Photo b...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir] I often get enquiries from people looking for one-to-one singing lessons. I tell them that unfortunately I don’t offer them. I...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I believe that everyone can sing. If you want to know more, you can read “Everyone can sing...
Mixed choir «Saluto» (Lithuania, Kaunas); Karl Jenkins "The arMed man: a mass for peace" I. "L'homMe arMe". The ArMed Man. The Museum Hall of Kaunas IX fort, 2012.06.14, Lithuania Kaunas Symphony Orchestra. Elena Kalvaitytė-Vitkauskienė, soprano J... more
