[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] “It’s a terrible Thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready.” Hugh Laurie   photo by Fido   Especially when...

Does chanting and mantra singing work?   We Love to share mantras and chants with our HeartSong Normandie meditation groups and singing retreats. It Can be such a beautiful experience and opportunity to calm, relax and feel the vibr...

The Israeli Vocal Octet singing the Beatles AND I Love HER with background animation excerpts at Animix festival opening night in Tel Aviv. Arranged by Orly Mazor-Yuval

London Community Gospel Choir on ITV's Alan Titchmarsh SHow on Wednesday 31st October 2012 singing 'Now That We've Found Love'. For more information on LCGC go to www.lcgc.org.uk Management: info@mvlsmusic.com

Opener - Nobody's Perfect Directed by Todd Krier Choreographer: Shawn Eck

SINGING When the soul first put on the body's shirt, the ocean lifted up all its gifts. When Love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. ...  moreSINGING When the soul first put on the body's shirt, the ocean lifted up all its gifts. When Love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. Performed by the Millennium Consort, Martin Neary, conductor, and the Pomona College Choir, Donna Di Grazia, director. Water Ruminations is a setting of six poems by the thirteenth-century poet Rumi, in English translations From the Persian by Coleman Barks, for double choir and organ. The poetry sings of literal and spiritual connections between water and sky, a drop of water and human life, flowing water and Love, drinking water and its container, the giddiness of spring and rolling seas, and the ocean's gifts and singing. Its images, From 800 years ago, speak to us with both vivid immediacy and transcendence. The idea for the piece originated with the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative, which proposed funding activities that would involve students in a...    less

This song is a wedding present for my daughter Salima and my son-in-law Tarik Talundzic. As a boy chorister I Can remember singing Healey Willan's setting of "Rise up, my Love", a true gem. The beautiful imagery of this text drew me to write my own s...  moreThis song is a wedding present for my daughter Salima and my son-in-law Tarik Talundzic. As a boy chorister I Can remember singing Healey Willan's setting of "Rise up, my Love", a true gem. The beautiful imagery of this text drew me to write my own setting. Sincere thanks to Matthew Curtis (choraltracks.com) for recording "Rise up, my Love, my fair one." If you would like to obtain the sheet music for this song, please contact: info@leadingnote.com. I would like to acknowledge the a cappella choir that I sing in, The Stairwell Carollers, and our director Pierre Massie, for their musical inspiration these past 26 years. I would also like to thank my friends in our "Ad hoc Chorale" for testing out this piece in one of our informal workshops and offering valuable comments. And with deepest appreciation to my brother Adam Rain and my friend Geneviève Lajoie for their invaluable support throughout my composing journey.  less

Love bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioni...  moreLove bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lack’d anyThing. ‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’ Love said, ‘You shall be he.’ ‘I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear, I Cannot look on Thee.’ Love took my hand and smiling did reply, ‘Who made the eyes but I?’ ‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame Go where it doth deserve.’ ‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?’ ‘My dear, then I will serve.’ ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’ So I did sit and eat.Love bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my f...    less

Do you Love to hear choirs and beautiful melodious singing …WE DO!     Are you a fan of the Divine Divas of Sunbury, THECHO!R, Co-cheol and Amber Evans … WE ARE!   Would you like to be introduced to the sublime singing of ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Shama is From Bangladesh. She Loves choral Singing, but wonders if all choral music is religious:   “I Love singing and have been singing sinc...