The Creative Choir

The Creative Choir
Author: James Neilson Graham
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-05-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1906999759

Choral singing is enjoying a renaissance, and this timely book contributes to our understanding of what choir work can and should be about. Starting from the idea that education underpins the rehearsal process, James Neilson Graham delves into the theory and practice of working with singers, drawing on the insights of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in relation to movement and Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström in relation to the voice. Singing is an aspect of our common humanity and the health of the socio-musical organism finds its reflection in the choral sound. How can the individual flourish in the midst of so many? How can the conductor facilitate the process? In lively fashion (with more than seventy music examples, diagrams and illustrations), James Neilson Graham challenges orthodoxies and opens up new developmental pathways for the choir leader and the choral singer.

Choir Boy

Choir Boy
Author: Charlie Anders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Choir Boy is the story of Berry, a 12 year old choirboy who wants to hold his voice back from changing at almost any cost. Berry tries unsuccessfully to castrate himself, then convinces a clinic to treat him as a transsexual. The pills Berry takes keep his voice from changing, but they also open a door Berry can't close. He faces a world of gender issues that he hadn't expected, and explores a universe way larger than anything he's experienced so far. Full of bizarre humour and surreal touches, this is Günther Grass' The Tin Drum mixed with Eugenides' Middlesex.

Choirs of Angels

Choirs of Angels
Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2008
Genre: Choral music
ISBN: 1588393054

This delightful book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum's collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, these precious paintings in miniature---with their compelling narrative, brilliant color, and shining gold---bear witness to exceptional aesthetic accomplishment. The choir books they illuminate are a rich source of information about the development of chant, whose unexpected transcendent tonalities have abiding appeal today. They also serve as primary sources for the study of the lives of religious communities and of the philosophy and faith that infused medieval Europe, offering a glimpse of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance.

A Choir of Honest Killers

A Choir of Honest Killers
Author: Buddy Wakefield
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1949342239

A Choir of Honest Killers, Buddy Wakefield's first new book of prose and poetry in eight years, is an episodic novel exploring his creative climb out of the gritty underbelly of anger and shame, into the dissolution of tragedy addiction and the unmistakable clearing ahead. Having toured the world performing poetry for the last eighteen years, navigating the blunt loneliness of life on the road and a rotating cast of unlikely antagonists, Buddy keenly unpacks topics like the intense overcompensation of his masculinity, growing up terribly queer in the south, the detriments of public shame, a toxic fear of intimacy and the devastation of a failed major relationship. Wakefield revs up for his relay race to the light with refreshing humor and insight by finding meditation as the love of his life, accepting bliss and learning to let go. While the poetry in A Choir of Honest Killers undeniably throws plenty of insightful punches, it's the through-story about moving from devastation to frequent serendipity that gives the book pace. But it's worth noting, as Wakefield writes, “Perfect probably isn't what you think it is.” Wakefield is ultimately catapulted through collective misery, landing in a sustainably joyful life governed by awareness, equanimity and a constant thorough understanding of impermanence. A Choir of Honest Killers is the result of a lifetime of intense work, fervent seeking and largely takes aim at an exodus from tragedy addiction, into the transmutation of his self-admitted density.

God's Singers

God's Singers
Author: Dave Williamson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2010
Genre: Contemporary Christian music
ISBN: 9780615406329

Publisher's description: Contains a special 75-minute CD of contemporary rehearsal techniques, presented live with real singers.

Adobe Odes

Adobe Odes
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006-11-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780816526093

Forty-nine poetic works provide glimpses into the wonders of everyday life.

Barking to the Choir

Barking to the Choir
Author: Greg Boyle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476726159

A Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries traces his experiences of working with gangs in Los Angeles for three decades, sharing what his efforts have taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of radical kinship.

Bertha and the Frog Choir

Bertha and the Frog Choir
Author: Luc Foccroulle
Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Auditions
ISBN: 9780735840621

Two funny frogs stick together and make their dreams come true! It's Bertha's day to try out for the prestigious frog choir, but when she sings...the other frogs cover their ears! Poor Bertha is sad when she doesn't make the choir, but she's not alone. Bertha's best friend Lucy is too little to try out. What will they do? The two of them cook up an idea that might make both of their dreams come true. AGES: 4 to 8 AUTHORS: Luc Fouccroulle is a talented children's book author from France, this is his first book on the NorthSouth list. Annick Masson is a Belgian born artist and illustration is her passion! Colour throughout

The Choir on Hope Street

The Choir on Hope Street
Author: Annie Lyons
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008202117

‘I loved every minute of this fantastic story!’ Christie Barlow It’s time to face the music...