[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   The OK Chorale have just started back after a long Christmas break. This term we’re working towards our annual spring concert. I need to plan a...

This post originally appeared on Helping You Harmonise in August 2009   I’ve been threatening since last winter to write about how the Inner Game ideas can inform rehearsal techniques, and the time has at last arrived. This pos...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] How long’s a piece of string? There are so many options that I’m not going to specify any particular type or model.   photo by svennev...

Crescendo is the evolution of the choir, our growth as individuals and as a group ‎from the very first rehearsal to finally singing for our audience at L’Auditori.‎ It’s an empowering life experience resulting from the intense months of work and rehear...  moreCrescendo is the evolution of the choir, our growth as individuals and as a group ‎from the very first rehearsal to finally singing for our audience at L’Auditori.‎ It’s an empowering life experience resulting from the intense months of work and rehearsals, ‎a learning process and a fantastic opportunity to share, to be supportive and to persevere in ‎our personal and collective dreams.‎ In this concert we present the Symphony for Strings No. 8 by William Herschel, ‎musician and astronomer who went down in history as the discoverer of the planet Uranus in ‎‎1781. This work will be followed by the dance of planets and stars of La Lluna by ‎Ian Shaw, a work based on the poem by Jacint Verdaguer and winner of the second edition ‎of the El Cor Canta International Composition Competition for Choir and Orchestra. The ‎concert will be rounded off with a call for peace with Missa per la Pau (Mass for ‎Peace), by Salvador Brotons.‎  less

  This has been a long time coming. For the past several years I’ve mused about forming an interfaith vocal ensemble, but it never seemed to be the right time.   Now it is.   Feel free to join me. We already have rehearsal spac...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Sometimes we’re asked to lead a rehearsal or run a singing workshop or perform a song and we do our job very well. But afterwards we don’t feel...

De nuestro estreno el pasado 26 de junio de "Música a 5 voces del Virreinato de Nueva España", extraemos el audio de este nuevo video. video Autor: M-ART production, www.mart-prod.com ATTRIBUTION LICENSE 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org licenses/by/3.0/us/)

This is a reflection video from the INTERKULTUR 3rd European Choir Games in Riga, Latvia featuring Barnsley Youth Choir. Many thanks to the young people in the choir and supporters for providing the content and to Jay Burgin for putting it all together.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Last week I wrote about Audiences at choral concerts.   Sangstream rehearsal by fiddledidee   But what if your choir doesn’t perform?...

Demo/rehearsal recording for our concert "Cold Hands Warm Hearts"