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[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from almost 30 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions ac...

choregie project Vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica Conductor: Karmina Šilec FORTUNA Won’t BE FAUVEL’S MATCH! pre premiere, Old Hall of Slovene National Theatre Maribor, 2015 Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy and Lechery Music: L...  morechoregie project Vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica Conductor: Karmina Šilec FORTUNA Won’t BE FAUVEL’S MATCH! pre premiere, Old Hall of Slovene National Theatre Maribor, 2015 Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy and Lechery Music: Lojze Lebič (1934): Fauvel ’86 Excerpts from the work Roman de Fauvel (1310 – 1314) Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! is based on a gothic allegorical verse romance in which the central metaphor for moral decay and decadence is an ambitious horse/ass. The main character – Fauvel – is an incarnation of sin, irrationality, unreliability, dominance, flattery. Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! mocks human egotism, hedonism, hypocrisy and excesses of the governing classes, of secular as well as church rule, a society contaminated by sin and corruption. The ruling class is despotic and greedy, Forgetting about the natural equality of people. Man through politics/the church is a symbol of everything that is wrong with our society and the system which administers it. Thi...    less

(This post was orginally written for the Embro Thistle Singers blog.)   I think sometimes we get so focused on making the music as directors and singers, we Forget that the people around us have "baggage" good and bad that we need to unpack before ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Many people have no idea how a song is learnt by ear. They assume that written music is a must. But don’t Forget that people have been singing (and l...

Last fall, we had an opportunity to share the Weday stage with 2006 Juno Award winner, 2011 Much Music Video Award winner, and the 2011 Stylus Awards winner, Shawn Desman.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   In your singing lessons and choir warm ups you’re bombarded with exercises and technical advice about posture, breathing, enunciation, pitching...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   For some people being a famous singer or being in the best choir in the world or making a hit record or singing a piece perfectly in competition is t...

  Forget straw boaters and striped waistcoats - this is barbershop with bling!   Join the fabulous ladies of LONDON CITY SINGERS for an evening of barbershop classics and a cappella arrangements of hits from musicals, pop favourites, and ja...

We hope you enjoy this quick performance of "Bring Me Little Water" by Moira Smiley! Please don't Forget to like, comment and subscribe.