Dječji zbor Osječki Zumbići/ Children's choir Osječki Zumbići Virtual Choir dirigentica / conductor: Anja Papa klavirska pratnja/piano accompaniment: Davor Dedić Institut za zborsku glazbu POLIFONIJA Osijek / Institute for Choral Music Polifonija Vid...  moreDječji zbor Osječki Zumbići/ Children's choir Osječki Zumbići Virtual Choir dirigentica / conductor: Anja Papa klavirska pratnja/piano accompaniment: Davor Dedić Institut za zborsku glazbu POLIFONIJA Osijek / Institute for Choral Music Polifonija Video: Josip Grizbaher  

Our last song is an original Carol written by the incomparable composer and arranger, Chris Hoban. Chris has written many of Show Of Hands’ big hits including, ‘Lily and the Rose’ which he wrote for Miranda Sykes and The Lost Sound. We’ve performed this t...  moreOur last song is an original Carol written by the incomparable composer and arranger, Chris Hoban. Chris has written many of Show Of Hands’ big hits including, ‘Lily and the Rose’ which he wrote for Miranda Sykes and The Lost Sound. We’ve performed this together with Show Of Hands, at their 25thAnniversary concert in The Royal Albert Hall in 2017. Chris explains the background of ‘Though We Lie Underground’ for us: I first came across the stories surrounding the curious tradition of West Country miners singing Carols underground when listening to a recording of Alan Lomax’s extraordinary live BBC 1957 broadcast “Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year”, a feat of radio genius involving hundreds of performers and groups all over the country, seamlessly brought together for one scintillating hour. At one point, Lomax described how the miners of Devon and Cornwall would celebrate Christmas underground in an almost pagan fashion: they would select the largest lump of tin ore they could handle, set it up in...    less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I regularly get emails out of the blue from various singing groups scattered across the globe asking for gigs. Recently I had one from a Russian ensemble, ...

esibizione della Corale Polifonica di Arsoli in occasione della Rassegna di Corali Polifoniche di Scurcola Marsicana (Aq) del 29 settembre 2012

Traditional French Carol Arr: Barlow Bradford