[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]It’s that time of year again when you still have time to to pop to the local garage for last-minute presents. What on earth can you get for the choral...

Text and Translation: Latin: Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exultemus et in ipso jucundemur Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero English: Where there are charity and love, ...  moreText and Translation: Latin: Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exultemus et in ipso jucundemur Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero English: Where there are charity and love, God is there. The love of Christ has bound us together. Let us exult and rejoice in this. Let us fear and love the living God. and esteem him with a sincere heart  

Miserere miseris - from the Dublin Troper, c. 1360, arranged Michael McGlynn - The Waldorf Students choir, conductor: László Bencze. Recorded on 20. 06. 2015. on The Night of Museums in the Hungarian National Gallery Budapest

[this is a version of a post which first appeared 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 Christmas everybody. White Chr...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   In 2010 artist Susan Philipsz won the Turner Prize  for "a sound piece consisting of her own frail beautiful voice singing a Scottish lament over the ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   When I’m booked to run a singing workshop for someone, I always make sure that I get there early. I usually arrive to find people milling aroun...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   In 2014 a Britney Spears recording escaped into the wild which demonstrates that without Auto-Tune her singing can be Less than perfect (Experience t...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Sarcastic remarks from X Factor judges. Teachers telling kids to “stand at the back and just mime”. Being made to stand up and sing solo to get...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I ran a gospel singing weekend recently. One of the songs was flagging a bit so I suggested people ham it up a bit and be more “American”.  ...

Choeur Gospel Célébration de Quebec - Solist/soloist: Fernande Angers-Artiste invitée / Special Guest: La magnifique Sylvie Desgroseilliers