Erik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a Long time, I felt There was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One Day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece ha...  moreErik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a Long time, I felt There was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One Day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece has its challenges. I tried to keep faithful to Satie's original musical inspiration and created lyrics to go with my arrangement that evoke an early summer morning, one of my favourite times of The year. Several months later, I applied to be a participant at one of The Vancouver Chamber Choir's Interplay workshops funded by The SOCAN Foundation and to my delight I was accepted. "As dawn breaks" was one of The pieces that this amazing choir sight read for me on The spot. VCC director Jon Washburn and choir members Then provided me with valuable feedback, for which I am very grateful. NB: One Day I woke up to The realization that I had independently written four choral works, each of which had evoked a different season, and so it seemed natural to group ...    less

My Spirit Sang All Day - Geral Finzi Performed by The Abbeydale Singers on Their 25th anniversary concert, at St. John's Church, Ranmoor, Sheffield, 16th July 2011. See http://www.abbeydalesingers.org.uk for more details.

Last June, at The Final School Year Concert of our Voces Blancas del Nalón Schools Choirs, we rehearsed and sang our interpretation of The New One Day One Choir Song. We did it so, that The 21st of September, we could join our voices to all those thousand...  moreLast June, at The Final School Year Concert of our Voces Blancas del Nalón Schools Choirs, we rehearsed and sang our interpretation of The New One Day One Choir Song. We did it so, that The 21st of September, we could join our voices to all those thousand of choirs and choral singers that are singing for The peace within The OneDayOneChoir initiative. El pasado junio, en el Festival de fin de curso de los Coros Escolares de Voces Blancas del Nalón, preparamos y cantamos nuestra interpretación de la pieza The New One Day One Choir Song. De esta manera, sumamos nuestras voces a las de miles de coros y coralistas del mundo que cantan el día 21 de septiembre por la paz mundial. Festival de Fin de Curso Coros Escolares de Voces Blancas del Nalón, junio 2018  less

Night and Day by Cole Porter, arranged by Andrew Carter - transposed for male voice choir and performed by David W Solomons as The dwsChorale The original score for SATB is at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/3622555?aff_id=175705

This post was orginally found on our Embro Thistle Singers blog. I remember when we had Professional Development Days when I was teaching, The teachers would complain that They were more tired that Day than from a whole Day of teaching.  I had had...

The Northwest Repertory Singers perform Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day. (Produced by videographer Jared McGilliard, son of NWRS tenor John McGilliard).

i thank You God for Most This Amazing Day - Eric Whitacre Performed by The Abbeydale Singers on Their 25th anniversary concert, at St. John's Church, Ranmoor, Sheffield, 16th July 2011. See http://www.abbeydalesingers.org.uk for more details.

"Unclouded Day" from "Heavenly Home: Three American Songs" Arranged by Shawn Kirchner, TTBB version 2018 Performed in Norwich CaThedral, UK

This is actually our 3rd Day of practice...sadly, it's also The performance Day

"Unclouded Day", from "Heavenly Home: Three American Songs" Arranged by Shawn KIrchner TTBB 2018 Performed January 2020