[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready.” Hugh Laurie   photo by Fido   Especially when...

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other. Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what remains, and look forward to what's coming next...let praise and worship God.

www.twitter.com/NobilesLeipzig www.youtube.com/NobilesLeipzig www.facebook.com/ensemblenobiles Ensemble Nobiles presents God DEFEND NEW ZEALAND to celebrate waitANGI DAY words: Thomas Bracken - 19th c. music: John Joseph Woods - 1876 arr. and...  morewww.twitter.com/NobilesLeipzig www.youtube.com/NobilesLeipzig www.facebook.com/ensemblenobiles Ensemble Nobiles presents God DEFEND NEW ZEALAND to celebrate waitANGI DAY words: Thomas Bracken - 19th c. music: John Joseph Woods - 1876 arr. and permission granted: David Hamilton - 2004 written for the National Male Choir of New Zealand Te Ropu Waiata Tira Tane o Aotearoa live recording: 5th February 2015, Leipzig/Germany © Ensemble Nobiles 2015 We are looking forward to our NZ tour: 18th-26th March 2015 sponsored by: Goethe Institut + City of Leipzig Nationalhymne Neuseelands zum Nationalfeiertag 'waitangi Day' 2015.  less

http://igg.me/at/stpeterssingers Ave Maria; Now the green blade riseth; Lord I have loved thy habitation composed by and conducted by Dr Simon Lindley and sung by St Peter's Singers of Leeds on the occasion of the composer conducts concert at York Minster in 2008.

The moment before a concert begins, when singers and audience members wait for the downbeat, is a magical time. Our first video seeks to capture that shared moment - the hushed anticipation, the sound of coordinated footsteps, the group intake of breath....  moreThe moment before a concert begins, when singers and audience members wait for the downbeat, is a magical time. Our first video seeks to capture that shared moment - the hushed anticipation, the sound of coordinated footsteps, the group intake of breath. Many voices, gathered as one...join us on the journey. www.dacapochamberchoir.ca Thank you to our funders - the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation (The Urie A. and Dorothy M. Bender Endowment Fund) and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.  

That Choir Remembers - November 8, 2015 (conducted by Craig Pike) Metropolitan United Church, Toronto ON Recorded by Kris O'Reilley All Night Vigil, Op 37 ('Vespers') - Sergei Rachmaninoff VII. Glory to God in the Highest www.thatchoir.com

Exultate Singers performs 'Mother of God, here I stand' by the great British composer Sir John Tavener who died on 12 November 2013. The recording is taken from Exultate Singers' new album, A Sense of the Divine, to be released in December 2013 and was re...  moreExultate Singers performs 'Mother of God, here I stand' by the great British composer Sir John Tavener who died on 12 November 2013. The recording is taken from Exultate Singers' new album, A Sense of the Divine, to be released in December 2013 and was recorded in St George's Bristol Mother of God, here I stand now praying before this ikon of your radiant brightness, not praying to be saved from a battlefield; not giving thanks nor seeking forgiveness for the sings of my soul, nor for all the souls. Numb, joyless and desolate on earth; but for her alone, whom I wholly give you.  less

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

Recorded by Quorum in Leicester Cathedral on Saturday 11th February 2017

Chicagoland Voices 2016 Winter Concert Great God Almighty by Stacey V. Gibbs Guest conductor - Dana Floor