Tesoro High School Madrigals Keith Hancock, conductor Western ACDA Conference (west coast premiere - February 25, 2016) - - score, practice tracks, pronunciation guide: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/tchaka - - - (TRADUCCIÓN AL E...  moreTesoro High School Madrigals Keith Hancock, conductor Western ACDA Conference (west coast premiere - February 25, 2016) - - score, practice tracks, pronunciation guide: http://sydneyguillaumemusic.com/portfolio-items/tchaka - - - (TRADUCCIÓN AL ESPAÑOL ABAJO) - - - English Translation: Turn up the fire! We are going to eat tchaka! Turn up the fire, stir up the corn, don’t forget the salt pork, We are going to eat a delicious tchaka. We are going to cook up a mind-blowing stew. At the sound of the three drums, everyone yells out hurray. If we join together we can all move forward. Let us enmesh in lovely harmony A delicious homemade stew, a musical tchaka. It’s a delicious homemade stew, a national tchaka, A delicious homemade stew… Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! *Yanvalou, Kontredans, Rabòday are amazing. Roots music, oh yes, that’s good stuff. Let’s stick together; side by side we can move forward. Turn up the fire! Turn up the fire! The tchaka is cooking! *Ibo, B...    less

On April 21, 2012, Cantores Celestes performed the Canadian premiere of Kentaro Sato's, Veni Sancte Spiritus. This is the third movement, O Lux Beatissima. Video footage: Patric McGroarty www.totesmcgroats.com

  It will be an exciting year for you, for us and the choral community.   We love Our job because you give us a better understanding of different cultures and because we appreciate how valuable Our work is. During the First World Choir Ga...

The premiere performance of composer Ethan McGrath's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" -- a setting of the famed poem by Christopher Marlowe. Ethan McGrath assembled the choir specially for this performance. Kelsi Williams and Joshua Farnsworth, vo...  moreThe premiere performance of composer Ethan McGrath's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" -- a setting of the famed poem by Christopher Marlowe. Ethan McGrath assembled the choir specially for this performance. Kelsi Williams and Joshua Farnsworth, vocal solosits; Tyler Rand, oboe; Heather Peel, piano; Ethan McGrath, conductor.  

God has commanded all his angels Ensembles VoCapella & LaCappella Conductor: Tristan Meister Music and photos by Alwin Michael Schronen Live Premiere: Nov 16th 2014 in Bad Homburg/Germany

An anthem from the 2020 Ocean Grove Virtual Choir Festival Dr. Brad Nix, Conductor/Composer Quinton Tramm, Audio/Video Production Dr. Jason C. Tramm, Director of Music Ministries For more information on the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting, please visit: w...  moreAn anthem from the 2020 Ocean Grove Virtual Choir Festival Dr. Brad Nix, Conductor/Composer Quinton Tramm, Audio/Video Production Dr. Jason C. Tramm, Director of Music Ministries For more information on the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting, please visit: www.OceanGrove.org  

choregie project Vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica Conductor: Karmina Šilec FORTUNA WON’T BE FAUVEL’S MATCH! pre premiere, Old Hall of Slovene National Theatre Maribor, 2015 Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy and Lechery Music: L...  morechoregie project Vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica Conductor: Karmina Šilec FORTUNA WON’T BE FAUVEL’S MATCH! pre premiere, Old Hall of Slovene National Theatre Maribor, 2015 Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy and Lechery Music: Lojze Lebič (1934): Fauvel ’86 Excerpts from the work Roman de Fauvel (1310 – 1314) Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! is based on a gothic allegorical verse romance in which the central metaphor for moral decay and decadence is an ambitious horse/ass. The main character – Fauvel – is an incarnation of sin, irrationality, unreliability, dominance, flattery. Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! mocks human egotism, hedonism, hypocrisy and excesses of the governing classes, of secular as well as church rule, a society contaminated by sin and corruption. The ruling class is despotic and greedy, forgetting about the natural equality of people. Man through politics/the church is a symbol of everything that is wrong with Our society and the system which administers it. Thi...    less

Music has been a part of human civilization for centuries. It is a form of expression that has the power to evoke emotions and connect people from different parts of the world. With so many genres, styles, and artists, the question arises, which is the be...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I regularly get emails out of the blue from various singing groups scattered across the globe asking for gigs. Recently I had one from a Russian ensemble, ...

Maybe there is no people who doesn’t know anything about Venice. For some of us Venice is the city of love, for others a pinch of history or a sinking wonder world caused by global warming. But it is not so well-known fact that there are 115 small i...