Imported from the U.S. in the 1960s, barbershop singing has developed into a highly organized musical community of 4,000-plus people involved in some 120 choruses in the UK. In the first scholarly stu
It is a truism in teaching choral conducting that the director should look like s/he wishes the choir to sound. The conductor's physical demeanour has a direct effect on how the choir sings, at a leve