[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   The choirs and workshops that I lead are run on the principle that music should be accessible to all. This means that I Don’t use written music to te...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   For the last eight years I’ve created a performance choir from scratch each year – a kind of Instant Choir, Just Add People – which I cal...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   You’ve put your fliers out, spread the word, mentioned it on Facebook, but still you find it hard to recruit new singers.   photo by I...

Coro de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA), Argentina. Director: Andrés Aciar Recitado: Juan Flores Parroquia del Patrocinio de San José. 4 de Diciembre 2011, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

lass="view_more">Grabación en directo del concierto celebrado en Madrid, el pasado 15 de diciembre de 2018, Para el II Ciclo EL Canto de Polifemo Video Author: FKY Author webpage: https://vimeo.com/fky Licence: ATTRIBUTION LICENSE 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/lic...  lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">morelass="view_more" style="display:none;">Grabación en directo del concierto celebrado en Madrid, el pasado 15 de diciembre de 2018, Para el II Ciclo EL Canto de Polifemo Video Author: FKY Author webpage: https://vimeo.com/fky Licence: ATTRIBUTION LICENSE 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/)  

Medley - live recording from our concert "Cold Hands Warm Hearts Includes: Thankful, A Child is born, A Christmas Blessing, Let it be Me, Don't worry about Me

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Some people are put off when they come across a song with foreign words. They prefer to sing songs in English. photo by Chell Hill Not only are they missin...

This post was originally posted to the Embro Thistle Singers blog.  There is a really fun explanation of the 4 basic choir sections as seen by a young person.  I Don't know where the original document came from or I would give proper credi...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Two weeks ago I wrote about how individuals choose where to stand within their part (Don't stand too close to me! - finding the right place to stand in yo...

I can tell a good movie by how uplifted I feel afterward. With really good movies, the feeling of upliftment and expansion can last for hours, or even days. Lincoln was such a movie for me. I saw it at the Grove Theater in Los Angeles. I was str...