[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...

Festival Anima Mea 2017, Cappella Musicale Corradiana, coro e orchestra. Estratto: Kyrie, Gloria (in parte). Antonio Magarelli, direttore. Annamaria Bellocchio, soprano Vincenzo Scarafile, alto Michele Sallustio, tenore Gianluca Borreggine, bas...  moreFestival Anima Mea 2017, Cappella Musicale Corradiana, coro e orchestra. Estratto: Kyrie, Gloria (in parte). Antonio Magarelli, direttore. Annamaria Bellocchio, soprano Vincenzo Scarafile, alto Michele Sallustio, tenore Gianluca Borreggine, basso Alessandro Ciccolini, violino primo e maestro di concerto DoMenico Scicchitano, violino secondo Maria Bocelli, viola Nicola Paoli, violoncello Davide Milano, violone Giovanni Battista Graziadio, fagotto Barbara Ferrara, oboe I Onno Verschoor, oboe II Gaetano Magarelli, organo  less

[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 ...

[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 ...

[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.      ...

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)

First and second moveMents of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. Sung by the Les Sirènes Female Chamber choir and accompanied by the Les Sirènes Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Nunn. St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, 26/06/11.

[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...

[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...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   There was an article by Alex Petridis in The Guardian a few years back in which he claiMed that:   “singing out of tune can convey emotions tha...