[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Sometimes old choir repertoire becomes stale.   Photo by quinn.anya   Well-loved Songs start to wear out and lose their sparkle. What can ...

Two love Songs par les Canterbury Voices en concert à Ris Orangis sous la direction de Kerry Boyle

New Dublin Voices was founded by conductor Bernie Sherlock in October 2005. NDV, whose concerts range in style and period from the medieval to the contemporary, takes special pleasure in exploring the music of living composers and has given many Irish pre...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">New Dublin Voices was founded by conductor Bernie Sherlock in October 2005. NDV, whose concerts range in style and period from the medieval to the contemporary, takes special pleasure in exploring the music of living composers and has given many Irish premières –including James Macmillan’s Cantos Sagrados and Penderecki’s Stabat Mater – as well as eight world premières of works by Irish composers including Linda Buckley, Enda Bates, Jonathan Nangle, Garrett Sholdice, and Ian Wilson. As well as giving concerts, NDV is a regular participant in competitions, both internationally and at home in Ireland. Recent awards include: • Italy: Three prizes at the 2010 Concorso Polifónico Guido d'Arezzo including First Prize in the Renaissance competition. • Ireland: Second Prize overall, the Schuman/Europe Award, and the International Jury Award at the 2010 Fleischmann International Competition, Cork International Choral Festival. • Hungary: Overall winner (The Grand Prix) and the Interkultur Special Prize for bes...    onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

Nine Songs from Op. 27 - Zemlinsky/Hoffman - Chorus & Orchestra - NotePerformer 3 Audio/HD Video Edited and translated by Stanley M. Hoffman. Synthesized performance and scrolling score in search of live performances.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A friend of mine asked the other day: “How do you find Songs? And how do you do vocal arrangements of them?”   Photo by Jorge Fr...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   My real love is to teach a lot of relatively simple Songs so people can spend more time singing and less time learning in a workshop (see We’ve come ...

Since 2008 we have been coming together in central London to learn and perform sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest Songs, work Songs, love melodies, folkified non-folkSongs, and good old knees-up tunes, from across the centuries and all over the world.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Last week I wrote about why you shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss Songs that aren’t in English. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) This week ...

"I Had a Paint Box" by Z. Randall Stroope. Text based on "The Paint Box" by Tali Shurel (age 13), from the book "My Shalom, My Peace: Paintings and Poems by Jewish and Arab Children". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center in the ...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">"I Had a Paint Box" by Z. Randall Stroope. Text based on "The Paint Box" by Tali Shurel (age 13), from the book "My Shalom, My Peace: Paintings and Poems by Jewish and Arab Children". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center in the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. I had a paint box. Each color glowing with delight. I had a paint box with colors warm, With colors cool and bright. I had no red for wounds and red for blood. I had no black for an orphaned child. I had no white for the face of the dead. I had no yellow for burning sands. But I had a paint box. Each color glowing with delight. I had a paint box with colors warm, With colors cool and bright. I had orange for joy and life. I had green for buds and bloom. I had blue for clear, bright skies. I had pink for dreams and rest. I had a paint box. Each color g...    onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

Innismara, meaning “island in the sea” in Irish Gaelic, is an autonomous vocal chamber ensemble that fills a gap in the rich tapestry of choral music in Newfoundland and Labrador. Comprised of professionally trained musicians, Innismara is dedicated to th...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">Innismara, meaning “island in the sea” in Irish Gaelic, is an autonomous vocal chamber ensemble that fills a gap in the rich tapestry of choral music in Newfoundland and Labrador. Comprised of professionally trained musicians, Innismara is dedicated to the performance of the intimate and hidden treasures of the vocal ensemble repertoire. Innismara made its debut in the summer of 2010 at Muses and Minstrels: A Festival of Early Performing Arts held in conjunction with the Cupids 400 celebrations. In collaboration with the Hot Earth Ensemble, Innismara performed music from the late Renaissance and early Baroque, highlights of which were recorded for national broadcast on CBC Radio. The success of these performances led to an invitation to participate in a series of workshops and performances in the Labrador Inuit communities of Nunatsiavut in the spring of 2011. The entire exchange project was recorded by film-maker Nigel Markham and CBC radio producer Francesca Swann for a documentary film on the choral tra...    onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less