PLEADING FOR WORDS Slovenian spiritual creativity Author of the project and conductor: Karmina Šilec Performing: Carmina Slovenica Jožef Ropoša, Interpreter of the poetry Tomaž Sevšek, organ Since time immemorial, music, especially singing, ...  morePLEADING FOR WORDS Slovenian spiritual creativity Author of the project and conductor: Karmina Šilec Performing: Carmina Slovenica Jožef Ropoša, Interpreter of the poetry Tomaž Sevšek, organ Since time immemorial, music, especially singing, and the word have served to create a connection with the gods, with spiritual worlds. Pleading for Words is a special architecture of music and the word that outwardly expresses contact between very different aesthetic criteria but glows with the same devout message: a personal spiritual testimony. The program concept is based on the attitude toward primary spirituality: from intimate thought to more outwardly expressed manifestations. Slovenian spiritual creativity can be summed up in threefold diversity: confessional, agnostic, and atheist. These works express categories of the incomprehensible, irrational, mystic, and metaphysical. Mysticism is connected with transcendence. This involves a personal testimony about spirituality and a direct reflection of th...    less

„…I want to make a trip. With my choir friends. Seeing famous cities and sights. Also having sun, beach and sea. Meeting new folks from all around and sing with them. I want to stroll around a Mediterranean old town in the evenings hearing mu...

Amidst the current gloom, it cheered us up no end to receive this review from @RSCM Magazine this month for 'Six Anthems for Mixed Voices' - there are some lovely recordings on our Youtube Channel of some of them. In particular, 'If my lips could sing' an...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] The last time I was in a room with a group of singers was nearly six months ago. If I had known then that I wouldn’t be singing like that for the fore...

[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...

43. International Choir Contest Tolosa, Spain. Certamen Coral de Tolosa. This is a service of Choral Festival Network (CFN) www.choralfestivalnetwork.org Vocal Groups Sacred music grupos vocales musica religiosa, October 31 2011

Recently established. We regularly sing in St. Mary's Church Haddington Rd. at the 18:00 Saturday Vigil mass. Our aim is to lead the congregation in singing of hymns & expose them to good sacred music through polyphonic motets & mass settings. ...  moreRecently established. We regularly sing in St. Mary's Church Haddington Rd. at the 18:00 Saturday Vigil mass. Our aim is to lead the congregation in singing of hymns & expose them to good sacred music through polyphonic motets & mass settings. We hope to branch out beyond the sacred music sphere in time  

A live Performance at the Seventh day Adventist (Pioneer) Church, Babcock University. July 17, 2017.

Anuna sing this beautiful medieval French carol from the PBS Christmas special "Christmas Memories" arranged by Michael McGlynn - sheet music from www.anuna.ie. Soloists Rebecca Shannon & Rebecca Winckworth verse 1, Eabha McMahon & Charlotte Richardson Verse 2.

The Stairwell Carollers are a charitable a cappella Ottawa choir, who sing sacred and secular renaissance music, as well as settings of traditional and contemporary Christmas carols. Director, Pierre Massie, has composed many original pieces for the ch...  moreThe Stairwell Carollers are a charitable a cappella Ottawa choir, who sing sacred and secular renaissance music, as well as settings of traditional and contemporary Christmas carols. Director, Pierre Massie, has composed many original pieces for the choir, as well as creating lively and contemporary arrangements of traditional carols. The release of their first CD Qui creavit celum, celebrated the Stairwell Carollers' 20th anniversary in 1997. In 2000 they released I Saw a Swete Semly Syght and in 2003 Mourning Dove. Their very first madrigal CD, Audite nova, was released in October of 2006 and their fourth Xmas CD Laudemus cum armonia in 2009. 2012 marked the release of their first CD of sacred songs from the Renaissance, Cantate Domino, Their fifth Xmas CD O magnum mysterium is now available for purchase. Winner of the 2010 OMFA provincial competition, they are ranked amongst the best of Canada's choirs. This charitable group has raised over $117,000 for local Ottawa/Gatineau charities, through t...    less