"Who Is Silvia?" by Mary Carmichael. Text from "Two Gentlemen of Vernoa" by William Shakespeare. Recorded live on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir...  more"Who Is Silvia?" by Mary Carmichael. Text from "Two Gentlemen of Vernoa" by William Shakespeare. Recorded live on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Who is Silvia? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admirèd be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness. Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling; To her let us garlands bring  less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Sometimes old choir repertoire becomes stale.   Photo by quinn.anya   Well-loved Songs start to wear out and lose their sparkle. What can ...

Two love Songs par les Canterbury Voices en concert à Ris Orangis sous la direction de Kerry Boyle

Nine Songs from Op. 27 - Zemlinsky/Hoffman - Chorus & Orchestra - NotePerformer 3 Audio/HD Video Edited and translated by Stanley M. Hoffman. Synthesized performance and scrolling score in search of live performances.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A friend of mine asked the other day: “How do you find Songs? And how do you do vocal arrangements of them?”   Photo by Jorge Fr...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   My real love is to teach a lot of relatively simple Songs so people can spend more time singing and less time learning in a workshop (see We’ve come ...

My name is Paul Eisenstein and I am looking for an adventurous choir (SATB) to perform one of my pieces. The work is called Songs from Cold Mountain and it is comprised of 6 poems by the 10th century Zen poet Han Shan. These are short pieces and can be c...

Since 2008 we have been coming together in central London to learn and perform sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest Songs, work Songs, love melodies, folkified non-folkSongs, and good old knees-up tunes, from across the centuries and all over the world.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Last week I wrote about why you shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss Songs that aren’t in English. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) This week ...

"Full Fathom Five" by Paul Carey. Text from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Commissioned by the 2012 Women's Choir Commission Consortium of the American Choral Directors Association. Recorded live on Friday, March 15, 2013, at First Presbyterian ...  more"Full Fathom Five" by Paul Carey. Text from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Commissioned by the 2012 Women's Choir Commission Consortium of the American Choral Directors Association. Recorded live on Friday, March 15, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach, Florida. Performed by the Saint Mary's College Women's Choir and the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Conductor: Nancy Menk, Accompanist: Hyeja Chong Ganahl. http://www.saintmarys.edu/music-womens-choir