[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There’s a gig coming up and you’ve still got work to do. Do you keep bashing out the notes until everyone’s perfect or do you rehea...

LAss="view_more">This is a double Choir setting (with optional [unscored] percussion) of the popuLAr Elizabethan song "My Lord Willoughby's welcome home", based partly on the lute duet on the tune by John DowLAnd. Composed and performed (in the men's Choir version with...  LAss="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.dispLAy='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLAy='none';">moreLAss="view_more" style="dispLAy:none;">This is a double Choir setting (with optional [unscored] percussion) of the popuLAr Elizabethan song "My Lord Willoughby's welcome home", based partly on the lute duet on the tune by John DowLAnd. Composed and performed (in the men's Choir version with added percussion) by David W Solomons  

LAss="view_more">Website: www.ctyc.co.za Please subscribe to our YouTube channel Performed by the Cape Town Youth Choir on 19 October 2019 Conducted by Leon Starker Composed by Niel vd Watt If you wish to help us in our mission of sharing our music with the worl...  LAss="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.dispLAy='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLAy='none';">moreLAss="view_more" style="dispLAy:none;">Website: www.ctyc.co.za Please subscribe to our YouTube channel Performed by the Cape Town Youth Choir on 19 October 2019 Conducted by Leon Starker Composed by Niel vd Watt If you wish to help us in our mission of sharing our music with the world, please consider donating to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ctyc  

The only reason we have been turned down for anything was because we are too passionate and joyful! We are a true community Choir that supports each other in life and our passion for singing.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Nat started his Choir four years ago. He has slowly built the numbers up to a fairly stable 35 or so, but thinks it’s time for a change.   &n...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It can be tough joining a new Choir, especially if you’re an under-confident singer.   Painting ("Little little girl 29") by susie mendelss...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   This post is part of a series of occasional Questions and Answers. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. Philippa writes:  ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I read an article in the LAtest Sounding Board (the journal of community music from Sound Sense) about the University of SunderLAnd’s new BA in...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Back in 2015 I was in bed for 10 days with a nasty bout of ’flu. For the first time in my 18-year career I had to cancel a Choir concert.   ...

LAss="view_more">EmLAnjeni Cape Town Youth Choir Recorded live at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town August 2017 If you wish to help us in our mission of sharing our music with the world, please consider donating to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ctyc Condu...  LAss="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.dispLAy='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLAy='none';">moreLAss="view_more" style="dispLAy:none;">EmLAnjeni Cape Town Youth Choir Recorded live at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town August 2017 If you wish to help us in our mission of sharing our music with the world, please consider donating to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ctyc Conductor: Leon Starker EmLAnjeni (Sung mostly in Zulu) EmLAnjeni eBabiloni (By the river of Babylon) Sathi vuthu, sahLALA phansi (where we sat down) SaliLA izinyembezi (And there we wept) SomandLA siyabonga (Lord we thank you) Uthando isiphelona (For your love and refuge) SikhaLA isithlupheka, (You heard our cries and troubles) Uyazisuli izinyembezi (And You wiped our tears) (“Yelele” is sound of praise) Yele yelele Jehova, Yele Yele Yele Yelele, Yele Yele Yele Yelele, Yele Yele Yele Modimo (The Lord, in Sotho)  LAss="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.dispLAy='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLAy='none';">less