[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From The Front of The Choir]Just because a song is in a foreign language, you still need to respect its origins. Sami family by Morten Oddvik There is a huge amount of misinformation ...
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in The UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
All Night Long - UCD Choral Scholars' and in The information bar: 'UCD Choral Scholars perform Desmond Earley's arrangement of Lionel Richie's 'All Night Long' as an encore at The Christmas concert, 'A Choral Celebration of Christmas', Newman House & Uni... more
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From The Front of The Choir] To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in Their...
photo by Gordon Smith
Barlow Bradford's Utah Chamber Artists perform "Run, Toboggan Run" by Abbie Betinis in Their 2012 Christmas Concert at Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Publisher: Fred Bock Co / HT Fitzsimons.
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in The UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
Life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, without meaning to, you can get a song or a jingle stuck in your head and end up singing or humming it for hours - or even days. On The oTher hand, when you are actively trying to learn a poem, lyric, or a...
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in The UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
