The Brocal Chords perform at the Drake University Relay for Life fundraiser.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Somebody asked me the other Day if I do workshops on songs from the musicals. I don't like musical theatre, so the answer was a resounding “No&rdquo...

A live Performance at the Seventh Day Adventist (Pioneer) Church, Babcock University. July 17, 2017.

IT could be said that music is Liz Leatherdale's Life. Not many of us are lucky enough to have made a vocation out of Pastimes, but Liz has managed to do so.   Colchester born and bred, the mum-of one flrst picked up a musical instrument ag...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   For some people being a famous singer or being in the Best choir in the world or making a hit record or singing a piece perfectly in competition is t...

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 is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   As a singing workshop and choir leader I have an incredibly easy Life. I can get up when I want to and have no work commitments for five Days ...

  Wow 40 years! Where did the time go? I've always been one of the oldest members of the Stairwell Carollers - if not the OLDEST - at our choir's 20th anniversary in 1997 I was 41, but still didn't look a Day over 30. Pierre had HAIR - and I sh...

Here we are singing our 'theme toon' in altogether different circumstances.... ... the princely escalator in the wondrous Millennium Gallery in Sheffield. What a space! And on SunDay, we bring it to Life with the Choral Celebration. Details and FREE tic...  moreHere we are singing our 'theme toon' in altogether different circumstances.... ... the princely escalator in the wondrous Millennium Gallery in Sheffield. What a space! And on SunDay, we bring it to Life with the Choral Celebration. Details and FREE tickets here: www.sheffieldchoralcelebration.eventbrite.co.uk  

A rollicking tale of social expectations and aspirations from the brilliant creative duo Alan Gilbert (New York Philharmonic) and Doug Fitch (Giants Are Small), this humorous opera explores Life in excess, all set in the imaginative world of the heroine p...