[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 ...

live performance in May 2023 Philip Klaassen, tenor solo North Sky Chorale Richard Janzen, director Audrey Falk Janzen, piano

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.

"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

[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 ...

Exultate Singers performing Sibelius' Be still my soul on BBC one's Songs of Praise 12th August 2012, conducted by David Ogden. The harpist is Kate Watt.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   2012 is almost over so I thought it would be an idea to look back on my most popular posts of the year in case you missed any of them. Just click on the tit...

Composed by David Warin Solomons www.dwsolo.com Conductor: Pad Zoltán Performed by: Countertenors Csapó József, Bárány Péter, Gavodi Zoltán. Tenors Fodré Lajos, Pivarcsi Gábor, Decsi András Basses Horváth Csaba, Silló György Béla, Melkovics Z...  onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreone;">Composed by David Warin Solomons www.dwsolo.com Conductor: Pad Zoltán Performed by: Countertenors Csapó József, Bárány Péter, Gavodi Zoltán. Tenors Fodré Lajos, Pivarcsi Gábor, Decsi András Basses Horváth Csaba, Silló György Béla, Melkovics Zoltán Organist Tabajdi Ádám  

 [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...