[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A few years ago I was asked by BBC Radio Suffolk to create a choir from scratch to perform in a concert in aid of Children in Need: The Big Night Out...

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The Major Minors Children's Choir (aged 5-12) are really looking forward to their concert  "One Small Voice" on Sunday June 8th.   The New Zealand based choir have been working on a variety of songs and this fun concert has something for every...

    The Major Minors Children’s Choir in New Zealand, is celebrating 5 years of singing this month. The choir that started out as a 3 month project with no name  in 2012 is in final preparations for a special anniversary concert i...

She Gave Him All Her Heart for SATB Chorus and Piano Music by Stanley M. Hoffman (2000, arr. 2004) Performed by The Philovox Ensemble Jane Ring Frank, conductor Scott Nicholas, piano Text by Zalman Shneour (1857--1959) Music: © Copyright 2006 for...  moreShe Gave Him All Her Heart for SATB Chorus and Piano Music by Stanley M. Hoffman (2000, arr. 2004) Performed by The Philovox Ensemble Jane Ring Frank, conductor Scott Nicholas, piano Text by Zalman Shneour (1857--1959) Music: © Copyright 2006 for the USA only by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved. Used by permission. Ordering information: ECS Publishing Catalog No. 6625. Also available for TTBB Chorus and Piano, ECS Publishing Catalog No. 6624, Tenor and Piano ECS Publishing Catalog No. 6626, and Baritone and Piano ECS Publishing Catalog No. 6627. The sheet music for this title may be sold only be sold in the U.S.A. Text: "She Gave Him All Her Heart" by Zalman Shneour from "Poems and Poets of Israel" is used by permission of the Zalman Shneour Literary Trust and © copyright 1967 by the Trustees of Boston University. Artwork: "Flower Girl" by Malcolm Tuffnell is © copyright by Malcolm Tuffnell and is used by perm...    less

Girls from 14-24 with exceptional voices from the Southern Gauteng region are welcome to audition and join the choir.

ex-semble The female choir ex-semble was founded in the year 1994 by its conductor Christoph Haßler. It started as an experiment in a small ensemble. Most of ex-semble's members come from the Süwestpfälzer Kinderchor. Starting in the Children's choir wit...  moreex-semble The female choir ex-semble was founded in the year 1994 by its conductor Christoph Haßler. It started as an experiment in a small ensemble. Most of ex-semble's members come from the Süwestpfälzer Kinderchor. Starting in the Children's choir with voice training and also personal formation, ex-semble works mainly with a-cappella literature of all epoches. From the beginning on, ex-semble has regularly given concerts in Germany as well as in foreign countries. ex-semble's current highlights: Concerts and recordings for radio and television with Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Südwestrundfunk (SWR) 1998: Production of the first a-cappella CD Leis' rauscht die Nacht 2000: Gold medal at the International Choir Competition Riva del Garda 2003: Special concerts during the Deutsches Chorfest in Berlin upon an invitation from the Deutscher Chorverband; for example at the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin 2004: Gold medal and category winner of the national choir festival in Lindenholzhausen; Chri...    less