• Antonio Ruiz

    Requiem Mass by Antonio Gallego (c.1530) Recently discovered (SATB)

    Added October 9, 2018 by Antonio Ruiz - 936 views - 0 comments

    Dear friends  IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR CHOIRS SINGING RENAISSANCE MUSIC!!Requiem Mass by Antonio Gallego (c.1530) (Spanish composer recently discovered!!)(SATB) (Also contains preliminary study) Available in digital edition PDF files. Ours is the only existing edition.If you are interested in receiving a copy in e... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    Should your choir perform live? – arguments for and against

    Added May 15, 2019 by Chris Rowbury - 936 views - 0 comments

    [A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] When I started my most recent community choir The OK Chorale back in 2011 I decided it wasn’t going to be a performing choir.     Brighton Vox, photo from atticglimpse.blogspot.co.uk   But ine... read more

  • Stephen Bigger

    Monthly Composer's Challenge- World Choir Music

    Added May 7, 2016 by Stephen Bigger - 935 views - 0 comments

    As a challenge to finish and post one new piece per month for 6 months, Here is my first of six new compositions. Rejoice! is a modern piece based on Veni Veni Emmanuel. It features tight harmony with classical sensitivities for Advent/Christmas designed for community choirs, but also perfect for schools, churches, and... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    How do you know if you’re singing the right thing?

    Added July 1, 2020 by Chris Rowbury - 934 views - 0 comments

    [A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Often, at the end of a singing workshop, someone will tell me that they didn’t think they were singing the right thing and ask if there is anything they can do about it. photo by Xavier Vergés It’s of... read more

  • Calming classics help life limited children

    Added March 5, 2012 by Juliette Holtom - 933 views - 0 comments

    WORCESTER’S Elgar Chorale is holding a concert to raise notes of a financial kind in support of Acorns - but the charity is no stranger to the power of music.   While the choir is excited about its Concert for Hope, which features Vivaldi’s Gloria on the bill, the known calming effect of listening to... read more

  • Santiago Veros

    Voices Against Vanity: How Music Battles Social Insanity by Santiago Veros

    Added April 19, 2024 by Santiago Veros - 932 views - 0 comments

    In choral music, I found my tool for social change. Growing up in a Latin American country with a sociologist mother, I witnessed social injustice firsthand. I gained class consciousness and experienced crises personally. I'm talking about financial crises on a scale unimaginable to any developed country—211% inf... read more

  • Soul Sounds

    Mood of Christmas 2013; A 10th Time Success

    Added December 23, 2013 by Soul Sounds - 932 views - 0 comments

    10 years ago, when Yasmin Cader asked Soul Sounds to do a concert at the then Colombo Plaza, little did I know that 10 years later we would still be singing heralding the birth of Christ at the same venue... I thank god for the blessings, and thank all involved today and over the 10 years who made this journey memorabl... read more

  • Liz  Leatherdale

    Colchester Classics and Local Choirs - part 1

    Added March 27, 2012 by Liz Leatherdale - 932 views - 0 comments

    IT could be said that music is Liz Leatherdale's life. Not many of us are lucky enough to have made a vocation out of Pastimes, but Liz has managed to do so.   Colchester born and bred, the mum-of one flrst picked up a musical instrument aged six and has not looked back since.   These days she ca... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    Booze, cream and other vocal dangers

    Added December 20, 2023 by Chris Rowbury - 931 views - 0 comments

    [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 the globe. Your experiences may differ from mine, so do feel free t... read more

  • MelbourneInternationalSingersFestival

    Street Requiem : To Remember Those Who Died Homeless (concert, Dallas, January 25th)

    Added January 1, 2015 by MelbourneInternationalSingersFestival - 931 views - 0 comments

    Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 7pm,  Dallas City Performance Hall Downtown Arts District 2520 Flora Street, Dallas   Featuring Credo Choir, Dallas Street Choir, Richland College Chamber Singers   With Special Guests Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano and Jonathon Welch, tenor   Jonathan Palant... read more