[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 ...
My name is Paul Eisenstein and I am looking for an adventurous choir (SATB) to perform one of my pieces. The work is called Songs from Cold Mountain and it is comprised of 6 poems by the 10th century Zen poet Han Shan. These are short pieces and can be c...
Since 2008 we have been coming together in central London to learn and perform sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest Songs, work Songs, love melodies, folkified non-folkSongs, and good old knees-up tunes, from across the centuries and all over the world.
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Last week I wrote about why you shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss Songs that aren’t in English. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) This week ...
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Some time ago I tried a new idea (for me any way) for helping people to learn Songs. Photo by Ramesh Lalwani I decided to associa...
Choral competition in Kork (Ireland), May 2013
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I’m often asked by concert-goers and choir leaders alike: “Where do you get all your Songs from?” Well, here...
Kitsch in Sync is London's most fun loving a-cappella choir. We specialise in performing hit Songs mainly from the 1980s as you've never heard them before. Why? Because the majority of our Songs are arranged specially for us by our ridiculously talented i... more
Na juriš in the mood! From marching Songs to swing Na juriš in the mood! with music from the time of the fight against fascism. From music of pre-war Paris, Jewish, French and Italian partisan Songs, American swing to Slovenian partisan Songs. Fr... more
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] At the end of each of my singing workshop I record the group singing through all the Songs I’ve taught. I then make the recording available to ...