A beautiful new release from ANÚNA featuring some of their finest vocal performances including the stunning "Miserere" by Allegri and the brand-new "Lorica". The album also features the transcendent music of Irish composer Michael McGlynn. Available on al... onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">A beautiful new release from ANÚNA featuring some of their finest vocal performances including the stunning "Miserere" by Allegri and the brand-new "Lorica". The album also features the transcendent music of Irish composer Michael McGlynn. Available on all digital platforms September 28th 2018.
[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...
Dedicated to the performance of sacred music from varied religious traditions and historical periods, Angelus performs music ranging from medieval chant and polyphony to the American Sacred Harp tradition and contemporary Irish sacred music.
[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 ...
"Carmel Highlands" by Daniel Kallman. Text by Janet Loxley Lewis, from "The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir... onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">"Carmel Highlands" by Daniel Kallman. Text by Janet Loxley Lewis, from "The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Below the gardens and the darkening pines The living water sinks among the stones, Sinking yet foaming till the snowy tones Merge with the fog drawn landward in dim lines. The cloud dissolves among the flowering vines, And now the definite mountain-side disowns The fluid world, the immeasurable zones. Then white oblivion swallows all designs. But still the rich confusion of the sea, Unceasing voice, sombre and solacing, Rises through veils of silence past the trees; In restless repetition bound, yet free, Wave after wave in deluge fresh releasing An ancient speech, hushed in tremendous ease. onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Some time ago I tried a new idea (for me any way) for helping people to learn Songs. Photo by Ramesh Lalwani I decided to associa...
Choral competition in Kork (Ireland), May 2013
[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I’m often asked by concert-goers and choir leaders alike: “Where do you get all your Songs from?” Well, here...
