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blog: How to improve your singing voice

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]     This post is part of a series of occasional Questions and Answers. Just contact Chris if you want to submit a question.     Tim wro...

blog: Why some singers find it hard to learn by ear (and what you can do to make it easier)

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Some people really struggle when it comes to learning a song by ear. Often it’s singers who are used to using sheet music, but not always. &nb...

blog: Leaving the back row - stepping out of our comfort zone

  [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   If you’re not a confident singer, your impulse will be to stand at the back and hide.     But this is the worst possible p...

blog: Why my choir doesn’t sing songs from India

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   The simple reason is that India doesn’t have a harmony singing tradition, and I specialise in harmony singing.     Photo by willsfca ...

blog: Helping your singers learn to hold a harmony part on their own

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Singers in a choir are used to singing their harmony part surrounded by others singing the same thing. Holding a part by themselves in a small group ...

blog: Over-rehearsed or under-prepared: which is better?

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I don’t like rehearsing. I’d much rather turn up on the day, trust the singers I’m working with and just busk it.      ...

Sa qui turo zente pleta (Negrilla) - "Manuscrito del Convento de Santa Cruz", (Coimbra, 1643)
video: Sa qui turo zente pleta (Negrilla) - "Manuscrito del Convento de Santa Cruz", (Coimbra, 1643)

"Hodie Christus Natus est" Coro de Cámara Reyes Bartlet Grupo instrumental José Híjar Polo, Director Ricardo Rodríguez, Textos y escena Javier Ruiz y Juan Carlos Martín, Creación visual Victor Lentini, Iluminación Iglesia de San Francisco, 13 de ...  more

Let the River Run sung by Gloucester Guildhall Community Choir and friends
video: Let the River Run sung by Gloucester Guildhall Community choir and friends

With much valued assistance from the Tea Time choir and the Morning Chorus. Brilliant version of this song performed on 19th July 2013 at St John's Church, Gloucester on a stonking hot day (30 degrees plus)

blog: Singing is for life, not just for Christmas

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   “Hark the herald angels sing”. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge. Slade’s “Merry Christma...

blog: Looking forward/ Looking back

[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...