Choral Music Gifts

"Whose idea was it to start with the Hallelujah chorus?"

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Josquin Des Press

Pastoral: Sung in a simple and idyllic style.

No Elgar!

"Please! No harmonizing during ululations!"

Hildegard von Bingen

"The 'Sing Only in the Shower' Community Chorus"

"I lost the groove."

Golden age of music

"Maybe we should just let heaven and nature sing."

Mexican angels.

Tenors

'Fortunately, the Almighty is compassionate, kind, understanding, and hopefully tone deaf.'

Choirmaster conducting, with one hand over a choirboy's mouth.

The-Lead-Us-Not-Into Temptations

'And if it ain't baroque, don't fix it.'

Ventriloquist Audition

A singer being criticised

A Capella: singing without musical accompaniment.

"If she has the voice of an angel I sure hope the others drown her out."

Heaven

'It helps with reception.'

"Mum, Mum, the choir master taught us to yodel today! I loved it, I want to practice every day..."

A family choir

Spiro & Pusho and the baby choir

"Great set of pipes!"

Four Chanting Monks

Loud Chorister

Hallelujah!

'I appreciate you enthusiasm...but please stop doing the Wave.'

'Every time I manage to learn the second verse of a song, I forget the first one.'

"...And you will serve two years in a male voice choir as a baritone!"

Didgeridoos

'I suppose we could use him as a Bass singer in a choir.'