"A Palette to Paint Us as We Are" by Elizabeth Alexander. Text by Geral Rich. Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir ...  more"A Palette to Paint Us as We Are" by Elizabeth Alexander. Text by Geral Rich. Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Give us a palette to paint us as we are. Enough of black and white, yellow and red, Those false colors that sham at fact. Coffee chocolate, and cafe au lait Ivoried-saffron and saffroned-ivory, Bronze and brass, copper and rose gold, Tea and pale butter, golden almond, Infinite varieties of browns and tans, Pale rose, pink, and soft rose cream, Mahogany, oak, cedar, and champagne. These are the colors of people I see, Not black and white, not yellow and red. Those false colors no longer will do. Give us a palette to paint us true.  less

The King's Singers performing in Nashville, TN on 14 Feb, 2010.

(Music begins at: 1:19) - - - World Premiere - March 7, 2020 University of Oregon Chamber Choir - Sharon J. Paul, choir director Text by Gabriel T. Guillaume Lawrence Barasa, soloist Robert Bohall and Jeffrey Boen, percussion - - - Score availabl...  more(Music begins at: 1:19) - - - World Premiere - March 7, 2020 University of Oregon Chamber Choir - Sharon J. Paul, choir director Text by Gabriel T. Guillaume Lawrence Barasa, soloist Robert Bohall and Jeffrey Boen, percussion - - - Score available at: https://sydneyguillaume.com/product/aybobo-pou-yo/  

Conductor: Meng-Hsien PENG Audio Recording Engineer: Chao-Hui WANG Performance: Müller Chamber Choir Performed at National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 9 June 2019

"We Are the Music-Makers" by Patti Drennan. Text from "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy with additional verses by Patti Drennan. Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ense...  more"We Are the Music-Makers" by Patti Drennan. Text from "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy with additional verses by Patti Drennan. Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.  less

Noctis Chamber Choir performing at Longleat Safari Park during their 'Jubilee Jestival'. Fine Knacks for Ladies - John Dowland Greensleeves - Henry VIII www.noctischoir.com

No. 5 Green Broom from Five Flower Songs, Op. 47 by Benjamin Britten CorISTAnbul Chamber Choir Dir.: Arda Ardaşes Agoşyan Lecture-Concert: "Stanford to Britten: A Musical Lineage" britten100.org British Consulate-General Istanbul Pera Hous...  moreNo. 5 Green Broom from Five Flower Songs, Op. 47 by Benjamin Britten CorISTAnbul Chamber Choir Dir.: Arda Ardaşes Agoşyan Lecture-Concert: "Stanford to Britten: A Musical Lineage" britten100.org British Consulate-General Istanbul Pera House / Ball Room December 14, 2013  

Conductor: Meng-Hsien PENG Audio Recording Engineer: Chao-Hui WANG Performance: Müller Chamber Choir Performed at National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 9 June 2019

Award winning choir Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, perform Passereau's exciting partsong Il est bel et bon. http://www.vasariSingers.org Shot at St Luke's Battersea in June 2011. Filmed, produced and edited by Incredibull.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]As we saw last week, many Singers struggle with finding (and keeping) their starting notes. photo by Albin Olsson What can make it even harder is if a man ...