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blog: Part 1 Choral Music that was inspired by the lives of Great Monarchs

Previously published:http://kellygalbraithblog.com/2013/07/03/325/   I was never one of those little girls that played dress-up in princess costumes and K-Mart tiaras preferring instead to pretend I was a famous detective carrying around a notebook...

blog: New singers wanted

Coro Cervantes, the UK's only Classical chamber choir dedicated to the Music of Spain and Latin America, are looking for professionally-trained amateur and student singers for our concerts, tours and recordings. Future plans include Romancero Gitano with...

blog: How to work with a mixed group of Music readers and non-readers

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...

blog: It’s too late for me….expecting more for ourselves

As parents we sign our kids up for numerous activities, swimming, skating, dancing, gymnastics, soccer, hockey,  Music, choir, circus school, diving, horseback riding, you name it we do it, and we commit to driving them to all these activities week a...

blog: On Choral Music in Worship

[Originally published on Michael McGlynn's Wordpress site HERE, and subsequently published by On Being, December 2011]   I was brought up as a Roman Catholic. My parents endeavoured to give me every opportunity to be exposed to a vast range of musi...

blog: Everything we hear about matching pitch in choir rehearsal is a lie

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that “Music is math.” Whether in relation to something simple (counting), or something more esoteric (highly-developed, academic analyses of harmony and structure), or whether it is a misg...

blog: ALBION - Birmingham Jewelery Quarter

The choral group Albion gives concerts like no others! Its unique repertoire is made up of beautiful all-new versions of the Music of Britain and Ireland. Much-loved songs like Danny Boy, Scarborough Fair, and Jerusalem – a staple of the Last ...

blog: Artistic Director for Salzburg International

He was involved in Music from his early childhood on, his father, Josef Wolfgang Ziegler, a well-known Austrian composer and choral director taught the first Musical steps to him. Singing and playing the violin became his passions. In the USA he starte...

blog: Can open-access choirs cater for every kind of singer?

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   As a member of the Natural Voice Network I share their belief that everybody can sing and nobody should be excluded from Music-making. Which is why n...

blog: A little rant: don’t diss those who don’t read Music

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...