• Chris Rowbury

    The great choir debate

    Added March 29, 2012 by Chris Rowbury - 5154 views - 0 comments

    [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Back in 2008, BBC television ran a series called Last Choir Standing, basically a knock-out choir competition.     On their website they held The Great Choir Debate, a series of questions about choirs ... read more

  • Choirs unite for choral spectacular

    Added March 29, 2012 by scchoir - 1069 views - 0 comments

    More than 400 performers will come together to perform two great French choral masterpieces - Berlioz Te Deum and Fauré Requiem - at the Colston Hall, Bristol on Saturday 31 March at 7.30pm.     Bristol Choral Society joins forces with Gloucester Choral Society and the choristers of Bristol and Gl... read more

  • Liz  Leatherdale

    RAVE REVIEW for new CHORAL CD - NORTHERN LIGHTS -

    Added March 28, 2012 by Liz Leatherdale - 1122 views - 0 comments

    Northern Lights, a beautiful Choral CD, musically describing the visually awesome natural event in Norway.    The music by young contemporary Norwegian composer, Ola Gjeilo, has been recorded by Chandos and the Phoenix Choir.  It has already been critically acclaimed, been John Brunning’s Classi... read more

  • Liz  Leatherdale

    ST JOHN PASSION sung in English

    Added March 27, 2012 by Liz Leatherdale - 1377 views - 0 comments

    Choral Society's Tribute to Norma HenfreyWitham Choral Society has chosen a work by J S Bach, his deeply moving St John Passion, for its concert in memory of Norma Henfrey on Saturday 31March at 7.00 p.m. at St Peter ad Vincula Church in Coggeshall. "Norma was a loyal supporter of the Choral Society for many years,"exp... read more

  • Liz  Leatherdale

    COLCHESTER CLASSICS and CHOIRS - Part 2

    Added March 27, 2012 by Liz Leatherdale - 809 views - 0 comments

        COLCHESTER CLASSICS IS PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH WITHAM CHORAL SOCIETY   Colchester Classics… …is an award-winning CD mail order service to the general public through its UK and worldwide exclusive database. It provides a CD service for those who have just started their Classical CD ... read more

  • Liz  Leatherdale

    Colchester Classics and Local Choirs - part 1

    Added March 27, 2012 by Liz Leatherdale - 923 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

  • Charl Asuit

    Looking for a rehearsal venue

    Added March 25, 2012 by Charl Asuit - 773 views - 0 comments

    London City Singers is looking to find a new venue to rehearse every week. We are moving out of City Temple near Holborn Circus and would like to find one that is around the same area of St Paul's in the City of London. We have around 25-30 members and also need storage space for our risers. If you have ideas, please c... read more

  • Debra Skeen

    New singers wanted

    Added March 22, 2012 by Debra Skeen - 898 views - 0 comments

    Coro Cervantes, the UK's only Classical chamber choir dedicated to the music of Spain and Latin America, are looking for professionally-trained amateur and student singers for our concerts, tours and recordings. Future plans include Romancero Gitano with Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski at the Southwark Festival of ... read more

  • Chris Rowbury

    There are plenty of good reasons to sing

    Added March 22, 2012 by Chris Rowbury - 4688 views - 0 comments

    [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A few weeks back I wrote about why people might not join choirs or attend singing workshops: 10 reasons why people don’t join choirs (but love to sing) and Why we don’t sing even though it makes us f... read more

  • Olisipo Grupo Vocal

    Duarte Lobo's Requiem 6V

    Added March 18, 2012 by Olisipo Grupo Vocal - 1041 views - 0 comments

      Come and visit our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grupo-Vocal-Olisipo/123677054357656   This is an excerpt of our concert on the 10th March. It's a live recording at Santarém's Cathedral in Portugal. Hope you like it. Visit our YouTube channel and there you'll find lots of videos of... read more