[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I don’t like rehearsing. I’d much rather turn up on the day, trust the singers I’m working with and just busk it.      ...

With much valued assistance from the Tea Time choir and the Morning Chorus. Brilliant version of this song performed on 19th July 2013 at St John's Church, Gloucester on a stonking hot day (30 degrees plus)

A Gloucestershire Wassail arranged by Alan Cruise Johnston free download of score: http://dwsolo.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-196137_wassail_arranged_for_mixed_choir.html performed by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale ( http://www.dwschorale.com ...  moreA Gloucestershire Wassail arranged by Alan Cruise Johnston free download of score: http://dwsolo.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-196137_wassail_arranged_for_mixed_choir.html performed by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale ( http://www.dwschorale.com ) Images kindly provided by Conrad Bladey (Hutman Productions) ( http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/ ) Jeremy Tarling (Flickr) (Creative Commons) and Glyn Baker (geograph org) Creative Commons  

Music by composer Gilad Hochman. Score available at www.giladhochman.com/vocal-scores Sirenot Ensemble (Israel) | Shosh Lagil - conductor | Efrat Hermann - soloist (www.sirenot.org) Performed at the 3rd International Chorbiennale - Aachen (Germany) ...  moreMusic by composer Gilad Hochman. Score available at www.giladhochman.com/vocal-scores Sirenot Ensemble (Israel) | Shosh Lagil - conductor | Efrat Hermann - soloist (www.sirenot.org) Performed at the 3rd International Chorbiennale - Aachen (Germany) | Citykirche St. Nikolaus | 20. June 2013 (www.chorbiennale.com) Recorded and edited by andreas Harrenberg. Score available over: www.giladhochman.com/vocal-scores Vermeer / Wisława Szymborska As long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted silence and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the jug to the bowl, the world does not deserve the end of the world. (in Hebrew, from Polish) - Commissioned by Sirenot Ensemble and supported by the Ursula Lachnit-Fixson Stiftung. © 2013 Gilad Hochman  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

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"The Star-Spangled Banner" (the national anthem of the United States) by John Stafford Smith, text by Francis Scott Key, arranged by Henry Leck. Performed by the 2011 Touring choir of The Girl choir of South Florida on Friday, July 1, 2011, at Christ L...  more"The Star-Spangled Banner" (the national anthem of the United States) by John Stafford Smith, text by Francis Scott Key, arranged by Henry Leck. Performed by the 2011 Touring choir of The Girl choir of South Florida on Friday, July 1, 2011, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.  

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