My incredible #choir is crowdfunding to keep the show on the road. You could click through to the pitch video, hear all about our little queer pocket revolution, listen to us sing and read testimonials, *or* you could just jump on it because (at the time of writing) you’d be the 69th donor. Nice!
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fchoir2025?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
2/2 And I do love this version: look at all these diverse adults singing with a tiny plushie frog! I always get goosebumps. For me a symbol of the world I want to live in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8enlTBXR5Y
@moonrabbit It's one of my wellfeeling videos.
And I do love this version: look at all these diverse adults singing with a tiny plushie frog! For me a symbol of the world I want to live in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8enlTBXR5Y
Hi everyone! I finally came around to write an #introduction post.
I'm Sebastian and I work as an #orchestralibrarian in a #symphony #orchestra. My cultural interests are #music (#classicalmusic, #jazz, #choir #singing), #literature, #history and #art. Other interests are #tech, #gaming, #running, #football (meaning #soccer) and #cycling.
I came to Mastodon in the 2022 wave of new users, but it took me this long to get this post done. Don't really understand why.
The choir of Clare College Cambridge has been touring in Europe, returned exhausted but happy, and posted these reflections from Graham Ross on Why They Do It.
Use recycling as Christmas decorations if you want to be thrifty. Who knew that recycling could make the holiday bright & merry 
STANCE, the Seattle Trans and Nonbinary Choral Ensemble, is holding auditions next month!
I'll be rejoining after taking a year off to grow a baby—I can't wait! There's nothing like being in a room full of trans people making collective art 
Tune into BBC Radio London tomorrow to hear Ready Singer One in an unusually festive appearance!
Tuesday 10 December, 9:50AM GMT
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_london
#choir #ChoralSinging #music #livemusic #christmasSongs #nerds #London #radio #singing #AmateurChoirs #choirsforchristmas
Edit - here near the end, after Stevie Wonder! Not sure why the correspondent put the mic right in people's faces, that was unnecessary and kinda the opposite of choir..!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k5c2kq?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Today my choir's warm up space before our show was an empty apartment with shockingly lovely acoustics in the kitchen. I almost wish we could have fit an audience in there!
Snippet o' the day is the end of 'Tomorrow shall be my dancing day'. It's slightly crammed together in the picture since it was used on a Christmas card last year. And the initial clefs (treble and bass) and key signature (G major) are missing from the pic, sorry.
Here, have another snippet. I'm not sure I'll keep this up for the next 22 days, but it's mildly diverting just now. Today's carol is The Wexford Carol, a traditional Irish melody.
Fun rehearsal.
Start with an Estonian piece, someone remarks that he doesn't have the brain power to learn it by heart. I really understand this. Conductor gets all pissy and tries to shame said singer "what about all those that can do it?"
Fast forward 15 mins, some more remarks by the conductor, said singer packs up and goes. 15 mins and an intervention of two choir members later he comes back.
Nothing is said, no apologies, nothing.
Later, at the end, I ask clarification if we are now finally singing something of the paper book we bought, or if we can use our tablets (that I use for everything else).
I get a bullshit answer that we have to take everything so it doesn't matter. I say that he should take a decision and then he explodes again "that this is not a fun rehearsal and blabla"... and then stomps off in a true tantrum.
For reals. Wtf.
It's December, then, is it. Have a snippet of a carol arrangement of mine.
Our side does misinformation too.
All day my TikTok's been full of something billed as a church choir singing Madonna's blowjob song "Like A Prayer" and people laughing that these Jesus freaks think it's a hymn. (Which it is, sorta; a hymn to cock.)
In truth all of TikTok is reacting to video of a pop music concert in Germany. They know what they're singing along to.
Misinformation can be great fun.
I listened to this episode of Rumble Strip today driving home from chorus rehearsal. It's amazing how music can feed the soul in so many different ways.
https://www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/the-aphasia-choir
So somewhere in may our choir did a questionnaire if people wanted to go to a choir festival in Berlin or a competition in Denmark, or both.
Our director really wanted the second, but the choir members were more in favor of the first.
So, another questionnaire was sent in september... but this time they got even less people for the competition. So even more drama, and now they're going to ask the people who don't want to go why.
Like, eh, this is a hobby?
This kind of behavior is really off-putting.
For me it's getting to a point where I don't want to do either anymore.
Hey fediverse! Here’s my #introduction:
I’m a dad, husband, developer, #choir singer, hobby #musician, #leftist from #finland. I’m interested in #science, #skepticism, #music, #philosophy, #politics and #nature among other things. I have given fedi a try many times now, often running my own instance. This time using @gotosocial
Boosts welcome!
Canterbury Cathedral. Choir Looking East London ; Tunbridge Wells : The Photochrom Co., Ltd., ca. 1890-1906 Canterbury Cathedral,Cathedrals,Choir stalls,Vaults (Architecture),Great Britain England Canterbury
#CanterburyCathedral #EastLondon #TunbridgeWells #ThePhotochromCo,Ltd #Choir #England #Canterbury #Gothic #English #photography #historicalPhotos
Dear America,
The Spooky Men's Chorale asked me to share their song with you.
New #ChoirsForClimate song!
Riversong – with words (below) by Rob MacFarlane, suitable for any level of choir. Best with lots of performers but will also work for a small group. It works Rob’s amazing text into easy rounds of five, ten and fifteen parts, and some very simple backing parts, which can all be performed together or separately. Designed for community choirs with a wide variety of abilities. Download (#CreativeCommons license) at https://choirsforclimate.com/riversong
