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

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I regularly run weekend workshops with up to 40 Singers.     Photo by Dennis Mojado   Sometimes I include name games to get to kn...

Joho Choir Tour 2013 - Viking Singers perform in the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle

National Competition in Fermo 18 ottobre 2015

County Town Singers perform Masters in This Hall (Audrey Snyder) at their December 4, 2010 Christmas Concert at Simcoe Street United Church, Oshawa, ON

Barrie Cabena's "Prayer of St. Francis", performed by The Larkin Singers under the direction of Matthew Larkin. Fire & Light, September 11, 2010, Christ Church Deer Park, Toronto.

Vancouver Cantata Singers perform John Rutter's arrangement of the traditional folk song, Dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron. Recorded in the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, live at Spinal Chord 2012. Watch in HD!

SUNDAY 24 MAY at 2.15pm THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire - website www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk  We make our first appearance at this prestigious National festival in a beautiful church  -- I...

We are excited to launch our terrific program for Australia's most dynamic Singers Festival! Melbourne InterNational Singes Festival - 5 to 10 June 2013   Melbourne has always been seen as the home of great arts and culture in Australia. So wh...

http://www.lanovaSingers.co.uk A setting of William Blake's poem 'The Lamb', by contemporary composer James D'Angelo. La Nova Singers are a UK-based female vocal ensemble who perform using the Bel Canto technique. Conducted by Michelle Nova. Accompanied...  morehttp://www.lanovaSingers.co.uk A setting of William Blake's poem 'The Lamb', by contemporary composer James D'Angelo. La Nova Singers are a UK-based female vocal ensemble who perform using the Bel Canto technique. Conducted by Michelle Nova. Accompanied by Celia Cologne on piano.