This week I am visiting three distinctive cities in three distinctive countries, and yet all of my meetings and engagements have one thing in common, a passion for children’s singing.
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Category Archives: Children’s and Youth Music around the World
We are back from Generations | Malaysia 2013 with more than two hundred children’s voices and more than one thousand audience members connected by this unique international youth arts initiative.
With more than one hundred children forming our unique Voices from Shandon choir, each Friday, team ARTlifeCULTURE is on the road, carrying only our voices, our tuning forks and our smiles!
Over the coming months, I will be working with Cork Community Art link as Music Director to their multi-disciplinary children’s programme Voices from Shandon, celebrating community and diversity during Ireland’s Hosting of the European Presidency.
I have just spent the weekend as course director for the ‘6 to 9′ and ’10 to 12 year old’ categories at the tenth Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod. What a weekend it has been! With more than 500 young singers, it has been an intense and immensely rewarding choral experience!
Gentle voices and earnest natures combine in this year’s Malaysian children’s and youth choral festival, the X Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod and I am privileged to be here. Invited. Involved. A participant, a contributor and a witness.
I have just finished preparing the coursework for the Malaysian Choral Eisteddfod X Symposium which begins on Friday, 25 May 2012. It has been a wonderful journey of pure imagination and I feel so entirely fortunate to be delivering this programme in just a few short weeks.
‘Children’s Choruses around the World’ will become ‘Children’s and Youth Music around the World’ and I will continue to keep you updated with my adventures and innovations in children’s and youth music around the world.
More than three school hundred children gathered and together performed Christmas carols as part of A Cork Christmas Celebration 2011. It was an amazing event and I had the pleasure of leading the festivities. The Christmas Season has well and truly begun!
I am delighted to announce that we will have a Cork Children’s Chorus Reunion Rehearsal this coming Thursday, 17 November 2011 at 8pm in St Francis Church Choir Room and that we will then join the City’s Sing Out for Santa! on Friday, 25 November 2011.
On Thursday, I plan on putting you all through your paces by starting you off with a rigorous vocal warmup which will include a rousing run-through of our old favourite, Jubilate Deo.
Once you’re warmed up and ready, we will rehearse three Christmas carols which we have been invited to perform as part of the City’s Sing Out for Santa! now on the new date of Friday, 25 November 2011.
We will continue our trip down memory lane by singing a selection of Cork Children’s Chorus favourites, ‘Nigra Sum’ and ‘When We Sing Beneath a Star’, to name but a few..
At approximately 9.30pm, will continue our catch-up at Captain Americas so for our younger ex-members make sure you have asked your parents’ permission!
John will be there and I will be there and I know that as many of you as is possible will also be there!
In the meantime, I would be really grateful if you would answer the questions below. It is so important that we help the world understand the impact of Cork Children’s Chorus and of childrens’ and youth arts programmes in general.
I really can’t wait to see to you all and to hear you all singing together once-more!
Fondest regards,
Sonya