C6 Live performance at the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake, IL on May 18th, 2015
The trumpet Loud Clangor from Ode for St. Cecilia's Day by George Frederick Handel Cantata HWV 76. This performance is Extracted from the last edition of the Golden Voices Choir FUTO CANZONA titled "In Praise of God's Goodness". Conducted by Nweke Gabri... more
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
It's never too early to get organised and, if you are in the same camp as Tim Knight, who likes to be way ahead with music lists and is already preparing for next Spring, then you will already be Thinking abOut your choices for Christmas. So, we are deli...
I go along most Tuesdays to The Sing at the Edge Theatre,Chorlton, Manchester. This week someone who hadn’t been for a couple of weeks mentioned how much they’d missed it. It got me Thinking how much I enjoy it too. Having tried another choir where the r...
This post originally appeared on Helping You Harmonise in December 2011. A discussion over on Choralnet from a couple of weeks back has prompted to me write abOut a phenomenon I’ve been Thinking abOut for a while. The main subject is abOut the ro...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I teach a song by ear in less than an hour at a workshop. Everyone picks it up really quickly and then they sing it brilliantly. We’ve been working ...
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[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] A while back I wrote a post called Over-rehearsed or under-prepared: which is better? One of the comments got me Thinking abOut things that have gone wrong...