The Hutt Valley Singers have been busily preparing a full and exciting year of singing for 2015, starting off with a performance of Karl Jenkins ‘The Armed Man’ with the Upper Hutt Brass Band and the Wainuiomata Choir. This popular wor...

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I wrote a post a a few years back called Do you need singing lessons in order to sing?   Photo by Anna Strumillo   My main point was ...

We are a drop-in community Choir with weekly meetings open to anyone who wants to join us. We also facilitate vocal improvisation sessions. Visit our website for more information www.7thWaveSingers.com

Our songs for your Choir - the Stone&Tara Songbook Stone&Tara (Anke de Bruijn - vocals & Peter Duiverman - piano) started out as a blues duo with a passion for a lot of other styles too, like latin-american, jazz, seventies pop, and classical music. When...

We are a Choir of very friendly people, with great musical experience, a great desire to make good music, with a very wide repertoire and many Concerts offered. Come meet us!!

  “United in Song” A Choral Celebration !     The award winning children’s Choir The Major Minors and the well-known Hutt Valley Singers, will join forces for a very special occasion:      ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There is a lack of men in many community Choirs (Why men won’t sing).     The Tenor by Paul Helm   One of the results of th...

2013.5.20 北歐音畫夏季音樂會 2 大東文化藝術中心演藝廳 指揮: 科勒.漢肯 Kåre Hanken

Corale Novantanove - L'Aquila, Sax: Gennaro Spezza for SATB Choir and Sax