[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...
[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 ...
My name is Paul Eisenstein and I am looking for an adventurous choir (SATB) to perform one of my pieces. The work is called songs from Cold Mountain and it is comprised of 6 poems by the 10th century Zen poet Han Shan. These are short pieces and can be c...
Be inspired and make a real difference at Hand In Hand, Melbourne Town Hall, Saturday 10th December, 3pm Do you long to listen to beautiful arias from your favourite operas, groove to gospel and swoon to classics that you know and...
Since 2008 we have been coming together in central London to learn and perform sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest songs, work songs, love melodies, folkified non-folksongs, and good old knees-up tunes, from across the centuries and all over the world.
‘We Need A Little Christmas’ written by Jerry Herman, vocal arrangement by Jenny Bennett, performed at our Choirs R Us Christmas Concert 2018 in Barnet on 8th December 2018 in aid of The Alzheimer’s Society. Choir Director: Jenny Bennett. for more info:... more
[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 ...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Some time ago I tried a new idea (for me any way) for helping people to learn songs. Photo by Ramesh Lalwani I decided to associa...
Choral competition in Kork (Ireland), May 2013
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I’m often asked by concert-goers and choir leaders alike: “Where do you get all your songs from?” Well, here...
