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blog: Swing! InTo Christmas @ the School of Hard Knocks Christmas concert

Come To our Swing! InTo Christmas concert at Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday 12 December at 4pm and you will want To “Raise your voice and stamp your feet, get up and out of your seat and be in the mix in the middle of the dance floor!" This conc...

Zoom Into Christmas
video: Zoom InTo Christmas

We very much hope that you enjoy our first ever virtual concert. We are sad that we are currently unable To stage live concerts and engage professional musicians To play with us. These musicians, who are largely self-employed, have been especially Hard ...  more

blog: It’s Hard To teach songs that people already know

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   My real love is To teach a lot of relatively simple songs so people can spend more time singing and less time learning in a workshop (see We’ve come ...

blog: Does a community make a choir, or does a choir create a community?

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I’ve written before about how Hard it is To get a cross-section of ages and genders in your choir (How To recruit singers To truly reflect your...

blog: Ode To Joy Join a choir. Science shows it’ll make you feel better.

Please excuse the shameless self-promotion, but a piece I wrote about the science of singing came out in Slate Today. I worked very Hard To convey a lot—the joy, the science—in the most succinct way possible, and okay, I'm proud of the result!...

This Is Albion
video: This Is Albion

We're often Told that Albion is Hard To define, though beautiful - and that our music speaks To people in ways that Touch them deeply. Here is a film that seeks To explain more of what we do. Voices from the choir describe our songs, our technique, our ...  more

blog: Hallelujah Gospel Chorus - Melbourne, VicToria

The School of Hard Knocks' exciting new Gospel choir is here!  This exciting new choir will be conducted by the brilliant Dr Kathleen McGuire and the amazing Dr Jonathon Welch AM with sensational new arrangements of Toe-tapping, soul-stirring, h...

blog: How To encourage regular choir attendance – balancing fun with commitment

  [A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Lately I’ve been wrestling with the problem of inconsistent attendance at choir. If not everyone comes each week it’s Hard To do any de...

blog: How To sing quietly (without running out of breath)

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Some people find it Hard To sing quietly. They seem To run out of breath easily and their voice goes all wobbly.   phoTo by Cristian V.   Why ...

blog: Singing in a group is a learnt skill – if you find it Hard, it doesn’t mean you can’t sing

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Many people won’t consider joining a choir or going To a singing workshop because they believe they can’t ‘sing’. Yet ask them To s...