[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Time to look forward to the coming year.   with thanks to my lovely assistant Susie Mendelsson   Look back first to realise all the big mis...

the Major Minors Children’s Choir have been busy performing across the region this year. their next concert features choir singing and solos from members of the choir who performed at the Hutt Valley Performing Arts Competitions  in July. the C...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Back in 2015 I was in bed for 10 days with a nasty bout of ’flu. for the first time in my 18-year career I had to cancel a choir concert.   ...

Following the dreadful fire in March earlier this year, Thomas's Choral Society are inviting the local community to raise their voice in support of this appeal to help fund the restoration process in the name of the 'Phoenix Fund'. We are putting on a 'Co...

Unisonus Choir was established in 2009 to promote, support, and celebrate choral music at the St. Benedict Parish Church inside Don Antonio Heights Subdivision in Quezon City. Since its inception, Unisonus Choir has fostered community-based opportunities ...  moreUnisonus Choir was established in 2009 to promote, support, and celebrate choral music at the St. Benedict Parish Church inside Don Antonio Heights Subdivision in Quezon City. Since its inception, Unisonus Choir has fostered community-based opportunities and training programmes that develop the skill and knowledge of the members. Unisonus Choir fosters a vibrant and inclusive community through the transformative power of choral music.  

According to the Big Choral Census, there are more than 2 million people in Britain that sing in a choir. However, over the past year, face-to-face choir rehearsals haven’t always been possible. Many choirs have rehearsed together using video c...

Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa theologica: "Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound." the quotation most aptly describes the repertoire on the Norwegian chamber choir Schola Cantorum's recording of Hymn...  moreThomas Aquinas writes in the Summa theologica: "Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound." the quotation most aptly describes the repertoire on the Norwegian chamber choir Schola Cantorum's recording of Hymns to Mary, the Mother of God, in which tranquillity, eternity and 'bursting forth into sound' are encountered in many different guises. the composers represented here have often chosen to allow their music to evolve in stable structures and remain within static harmonic spaces even when the music becomes expressive and dramatic: Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Duruflé, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Martin Ødegaard, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Pärt, Ola Gjeilo, Andrew Smith and Trond Kverno. https://shop.klicktrack.com/2l/420085/ Throughout its existence the chamber choir Schola Cantorum has had high ambitions. the choir has built up an international reputation and has made it a trademark to include newly wri...    less

Locus Iste - Bruckner - Coral Santiago Apostol (16-03-2012) Director: Mariano García Encuentro de música sacra, junto al coro holy Trinity de Dallas, Texas Iglesia de San Ildefonso, Madrid www.coralsantiagoapostol.com

Tre havsvisioner (1956) "Havet" by Gösta Nystrœm (1890-1966) Performed by the Esoterics March 9, 2014 holy Rosary Catholic Church O tillflykt, säkra ro! Hur själen än har tröttnat, du ständigt dock, o hav, i härlighet är nytt.\ Hur månget hjärt...  moreTre havsvisioner (1956) "Havet" by Gösta Nystrœm (1890-1966) Performed by the Esoterics March 9, 2014 holy Rosary Catholic Church O tillflykt, säkra ro! Hur själen än har tröttnat, du ständigt dock, o hav, i härlighet är nytt.\ Hur månget hjärta glömt vid denna djupa syn, hur mången själ har stillnat! O mänsklighetens ädle, tankens och sångens väldige, ha mättat sina själar; O heliga, av dina brus som sjunga i morgonbrus ur Tebes Pindaros, och mörkna med Psaltaren till väldigt aftonbrus! ~Vilhelm Ekelund Translation: O refuge, safe and calm! How my soul is already tired, yet you are constant, o sea, in your glory anew. How many hearts have forgotten in the presence of your depths, how many souls have quieted! O humankind's most noble one, mightiest one of thought and song, who has filled our souls, O holy one, they sing of your swells from the morning waves of Pindar's thebes, and grow darker through the Psalms to the mighty surges of evening...    less

Since 1975, the United States has welcomed over 3 million refugees according to the U.S. Department of State’s Refugee Processing Center.  Each year the President, in consultation with Congress, determines the numerical ceiling for refugee...