The Avalonian Free State choir sing 'The Rose' by Amanda McBroom. arranged for acapella choir by Sally Pullinger & Michael Lowe. Recorded by Alex Diaz in the Goddess Hall on the 3rd May 2012, Glastonbury.

Beira Interior is one of our newest festivals. It was first arranged in 2014; and 2026 is going to be the 6th time it takes place. So, while waiting for next October to arrive, please enjoy this selection of photos from past years!     Con...

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)

Winner, 2009 POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award Music, Nilo Alcala Text: Mevlana Jala ad-Din Rumi English Translation: Anna and Adam Czerniawscy Premiered: Oct. 17, 2009 St. Joseph's Catholic Church 732 18th Avenue E, Seattle Oct. 18, 2009 Holy ...  moreWinner, 2009 POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award Music, Nilo Alcala Text: Mevlana Jala ad-Din Rumi English Translation: Anna and Adam Czerniawscy Premiered: Oct. 17, 2009 St. Joseph's Catholic Church 732 18th Avenue E, Seattle Oct. 18, 2009 Holy Rosary Catholic Church 4139 42nd Avenue Southwest, West Seattle Oh, do not sleep friend, through this night.  You a soul, while we are suffring through this night  Banish slumber from your eyes!  The great secret is revealed in this night.  You are Jove in the high heavens,  Round heavns starry dome you circle in this night!  Like an eagle fly above!  Now a hero is your soul in this night.  Such a quiet, others sleep  I and God alone together in this night!  What a roar! Joy arises,   Truth with gleaming wing is shining in this night!  Do not sleep friend,  If I slumbered until sunrise,  I should never, never see this night again!  Thorough fares on earth are silent.  There behold the starry roads of this night.  Leo, Or...    Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

A Gloucestershire Wassail arranged by Alan Cruise Johnston free download of score: http://dwsolo.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-196137_wassail_arranged_for_mixed_choir.html performed by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale ( http://www.dwschorale.com ...  moreA Gloucestershire Wassail arranged by Alan Cruise Johnston free download of score: http://dwsolo.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-196137_wassail_arranged_for_mixed_choir.html performed by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale ( http://www.dwschorale.com ) Images kindly provided by Conrad Bladey (Hutman Productions) ( http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/ ) Jeremy Tarling (Flickr) (Creative Commons) and Glyn Baker (geograph org) Creative Commons  

[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...

Music by composer Gilad Hochman. Score available at www.giladhochman.com/vocal-scores Sirenot Ensemble (Israel) | Shosh Lagil - conductor | Efrat Hermann - soloist (www.sirenot.org) Performed at the 3rd International Chorbiennale - Aachen (Germany) ...  moreMusic by composer Gilad Hochman. Score available at www.giladhochman.com/vocal-scores Sirenot Ensemble (Israel) | Shosh Lagil - conductor | Efrat Hermann - soloist (www.sirenot.org) Performed at the 3rd International Chorbiennale - Aachen (Germany) | Citykirche St. Nikolaus | 20. June 2013 (www.chorbiennale.com) Recorded and edited by andreas Harrenberg. Score available over: www.giladhochman.com/vocal-scores Vermeer / Wisława Szymborska As long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted silence and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the jug to the bowl, the world does not deserve the end of the world. (in Hebrew, from Polish) - Commissioned by Sirenot Ensemble and supported by the Ursula Lachnit-Fixson Stiftung. © 2013 Gilad Hochman  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

[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...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Sometimes we’re asked to lead a rehearsal or run a singing workshop or perform a song and we do our job very well. But afterwards we don’t feel...