[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...

[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...

[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...

[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Your church or Community centre sets up the concerts. Your committee deals with the finances and the social events. Your musical director teac...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I had a friend who moved to a new town and set up a new Choir, blissfully ignorant of the 100+ Community chorus that already existed there.   phot...

An excerpt from movement IV of my Requiem (2007) as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. text: Keats (from Ode to a Nightingale) Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with e...  moreAn excerpt from movement IV of my Requiem (2007) as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer. text: Keats (from Ode to a Nightingale) Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain  

Cantabile Chamber Singers www.cantabileChambersingers.com Cheryll Chung, Artistic Director Drew Henderson: Video John Gray: Audio

Live Recording at Da Nang Seminary for the Uniquely Abled - Da Nang, Vietnam March 2011 Vietnamese Tour

The final movement (mvt. VI) of the Requiem that I composed in 2007, as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer on May 18, 2008. I had wanted to write a requiem for quite some time, having been swept away by the Req...  moreThe final movement (mvt. VI) of the Requiem that I composed in 2007, as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer on May 18, 2008. I had wanted to write a requiem for quite some time, having been swept away by the Requiems of Brahms, Faure, Rutter, Durufle, Mozart and Daley. "Life's work well done, Life's race well run, Life's crown well won, Now comes rest." --- Edward Hazen Parker If [they] have given you delight By aught that [they] have done, Let [them] lie quiet in that night Which shall be yours anon: And for that little, little span The dead are borne in mind Seek not to question other than The [deeds] [they] leave behind. --- Kipling Pictures: random shots from London, UK; Washington, D.C.; Toronto, Canada; Tulum, Mexico.  less

Anthem by Edgar Bainton And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a ...  moreAnthem by Edgar Bainton And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Revelation 21) Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How. I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos. John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.  less