This was originally published on the Embro Thistle Singers blog.  The phrase is that curved line in a piece of Music that is like climbing a mountain.  You start out with lots of excitement.  It is hard work to go up that slanted side an...

The men of Ottawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform The Romantic Sacred piece, Spaséniye sodélal. Written by Pavel Chesnokov - an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. If you love our Music, a Donation would be apprec...  moreThe men of Ottawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform The Romantic Sacred piece, Spaséniye sodélal. Written by Pavel Chesnokov - an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. If you love our Music, a Donation would be appreciated Please DONATE to our 40th fundraising goal of $15,000 to celebrate this milestone! http://www.stairwellcarollers.com/Donate.html All Donations receive a charitable tax receipt ! Get our professional recordings here... http://www.stairwellcarollers.com/Purchases.html All Stairwell Carollers CDs benefit charities and are available on our website in both CD and MP3 formats. This non-profit organization raises funds for local charities through concert, CD and cookbook sales. The Stairwell Carollers, an a cappella group formed in 1977 by director Pierre Massie, has earned the distinction of being ranked amongst the best of Ontario choirs. The group took first place in both the 2010 and 2013 Ontario Music Festival Association provincial competition. ...    less

Rachel L. Jackson, Minister of Music. conducts the Fremont Presbyterian choir and Orchestra. Sacramento, California, December 10, 2022. Arranged for SATB by John Whittaker From FOLKSONGS of THE FOUR SEASONS - IV. WINTER (1949, arr. 2020) CELEBRATIN...  moreRachel L. Jackson, Minister of Music. conducts the Fremont Presbyterian choir and Orchestra. Sacramento, California, December 10, 2022. Arranged for SATB by John Whittaker From FOLKSONGS of THE FOUR SEASONS - IV. WINTER (1949, arr. 2020) CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY of THE BIRTH of RALPH VAUGHN WILLIAMS Instructed by the greats including Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and friend Gustav Holtz, Composer Ralph Vaughn Williams was one of the first to gather folk songs and carols from around the countryside of England in the early 20th century. He found his identity as a national composer with his synthesis of folk Music, classical training and the experience gained as Musical Editor of the English Hymnal. Composed over the span of four decades culminating in 1949, Folksongs of the Four Seasons is a cantata of 16 songs commissioned by The Women’s Institute; four for each season. The Winter section take the listener on a journey through the Christmas practices of the working poor in Victorian England. A...    less

FINAL ROUND Helsinki Music Centre September 22, 2012 Gabaq-an Ruben Federizon Conducted by Emmanuel P. de Leon, Jr.

Seeing the forest for the trees... Something on my mind today as I prepare young minds for a year of learning and growing as human beings through the medium of Choral Music, is the value of an individual identity in a group setting.  So many people ...

Commissioned in honor of our 15th anniversary. Music by Bob Convery, Text by Christina Rossetti.

The concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop Music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of...  moreThe concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop Music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from the Musical West Side Story that graced the walls of the Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque Musical artistic creations. Jazz Musicians performed along with the choir, and the Musical effects were accompanied by a unique lighting arrangement, which required appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by the Academic choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology, conducted by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompanied by Musicians from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, ended with joint singing, encores and a standing ovation.  less

The concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop Music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of...  moreThe concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop Music hits. During the performance we heard choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from the Musical West Side Story that graced the walls of the Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque Musical artistic creations. Jazz Musicians performed along with the choir, and the Musical effects were accompanied by a unique lighting arrangement, which required appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by the Academic choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology, conducted by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompanied by Musicians from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, ended with joint singing, encores and a standing ovation.  less

Ottawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform Contre qui, rose written by American contemporary composer Morten Lauridsen. If you love our Music, a Donation would be appreciated. Please DONATE to our 40th fundraising goal of $15,000 to celebrate this ...  moreOttawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform Contre qui, rose written by American contemporary composer Morten Lauridsen. If you love our Music, a Donation would be appreciated. Please DONATE to our 40th fundraising goal of $15,000 to celebrate this milestone! http://www.stairwellcarollers.com/Donate.html. All Donations receive a charitable tax receipt ! Get our professional recordings here... http://www.stairwellcarollers.com/Purchases.html All Stairwell Carollers CDs benefit charities and are available on our website in both CD and MP3 formats. This non-profit organization raises funds for local charities through concert, CD and cookbook sales. The Stairwell Carollers, an a cappella group formed in 1977 by director Pierre Massie, has earned the distinction of being ranked amongst the best of Ontario choirs. The group took first place in both the 2010 and 2013 Ontario Music Festival Association provincial competition. This non-profit organization raises funds for local charities through conce...    less

Okay- so I've been a bit slack about blogging lately.  Not that I have been idol- there is so much to blog about but 24 hours in a day a full time job and more Music than I can ever learn to play means there  isn't enough time!   In the l...