the Hutt Valley Singers have been busily preparing a full and exciting year of singing for 2015, starting off with a performance of Karl Jenkins ‘the Armed Man’ with the Upper Hutt Brass Band and the Wainuiomata choir. This popular wor...

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. the text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. the text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. therefore it might be expected that this Musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. the composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I wrote a post a a few years back called Do you need singing lessons in order to sing?   Photo by Anna Strumillo   My main point was ...

Zulu church/ protest song: "the walls of Jericho are falling." Understood to be a reference to the fall of apartheid. As sung by the Polokwane choir, taught by Northern Harmony. This is from the OK Chorale's first ever public concert in Woodbridge, Suf...  moreZulu church/ protest song: "the walls of Jericho are falling." Understood to be a reference to the fall of apartheid. As sung by the Polokwane choir, taught by Northern Harmony. This is from the OK Chorale's first ever public concert in Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK on 24 March 2012. Not the best of lighting! Also a bit shouty in places as it was many of the singers' first time in front of an audience. www.chrisrowbury.com  

  “United in Song” A Choral Celebration !     the award winning children’s choir the Major Minors and the well-known Hutt Valley Singers, will join forces for a very special occasion:      ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   there is a lack of men in many community choirs (Why men won’t sing).     the Tenor by Paul Helm   One of the results of th...

2013.5.20 北歐音畫夏季音樂會 2 大東文化藝術中心演藝廳 指揮: 科勒.漢肯 Kåre Hanken

Corale Novantanove - L'Aquila, Sax: Gennaro Spezza for SATB choir and Sax

LIVE 28.11.2015 www.gloriabrunensis.cz choir Brno CZE

Performed by Universitair Koor Antwerpen at a Provincial choir Competition on March 12, 2017.