[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]     This post is part of a series of occasional Questions and Answers. Just contact Chris if you want to submit a question.     Tim wro...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   SoMe people really struggle when it coMes to learning a song by ear. Often it’s singers who are used to using sheet music, but not always. &nb...

First and second moveMents of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. Sung by the Les Sirènes Female Chamber choir and accompanied by the Les Sirènes Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Nunn. St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, 26/06/11.

  [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   If you’re not a confident singer, your impulse will be to stand at the back and hide.     But this is the worst possible p...

Festival Anima Mea 2017, Cappella Musicale Corradiana, coro e orchestra. Estratto: Kyrie, Gloria (in parte). Antonio Magarelli, direttore. Annamaria Bellocchio, soprano Vincenzo Scarafile, alto Michele Sallustio, tenore Gianluca Borreggine, bas...  moreFestival Anima Mea 2017, Cappella Musicale Corradiana, coro e orchestra. Estratto: Kyrie, Gloria (in parte). Antonio Magarelli, direttore. Annamaria Bellocchio, soprano Vincenzo Scarafile, alto Michele Sallustio, tenore Gianluca Borreggine, basso Alessandro Ciccolini, violino primo e maestro di concerto DoMenico Scicchitano, violino secondo Maria Bocelli, viola Nicola Paoli, violoncello Davide Milano, violone Giovanni Battista Graziadio, fagotto Barbara Ferrara, oboe I Onno Verschoor, oboe II Gaetano Magarelli, organo  less

With much valued assistance from the Tea TiMe choir and the Morning Chorus. Brilliant version of this song perforMed on 19th July 2013 at St John's Church, Gloucester on a stonking hot day (30 degrees plus)

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I don’t like rehearsing. I’d much rather turn up on the day, trust the singers I’m working with and just busk it.      ...

Mixed choir «Saluto» (Lithuania, Kaunas); Karl Jenkins "The arMed man: a mass for peace" III. Kyrie The Museum Hall of Kaunas IX fort, 2012.06.14, Lithuania Kaunas Symphony Orchestra. Martynas Kliučininkas, descant Conductor Ramutė Štreimikytė

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   “Hark the herald angels sing”. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge. Slade’s “Merry Christma...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   TiMe to look forward to the coming year.   with thanks to my lovely assistant Susie Mendelsson   Look back first to realise all the big mis...