{"id":5162,"date":"2016-11-22T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:48:26","slug":"choir-playlist-the-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.city-academy.com\/news\/choir-playlist-the-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir Playlist: The Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"theRachel Maby has been the musical director for the Voices choir<\/a> since September 2016, watching it evolve from 17 to 27 members, and getting to know each and every one. “It’s an incredibly sociable group\u00a0and caring learning environment to be a part of. I love the community aspect to music-making you get from a choir and the spiritually uplifting sensation you feel performing alongside other passionate singers – I try to bring the same enthusiasm to my choral directing work,” she explains.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Together she and the choir\u00a0have been focussing on the art of singing a cappella in a variety of styles – from jazz to pop to classical – in the lead up to their next concert.\u00a0Relatively new to the table, Rachel is\u00a0paying greater attention to the vocal blend of\u00a0the group to master challenging six part vocal writing. Now she lends us some of her\u00a0musical insight here; creating a choir playlist that resembles the Voices’\u00a0repertoire and telling\u00a0us in her own words why\u00a0each song is special…<\/p>\n

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Voices Choir Playlist Song 1: A Bridge Over You<\/h5>\n

“This piece is Adam Morris’ arrangement of Paul Simon’s \u2018Bridge Over Troubled Water\u2019 and Coldplay’s \u2018Fix You\u2019. It got a no.1 in the charts when the NHS choir recorded it this time last year. It\u00a0seems fitting to include, because Voices choir will be premiering Adam Morris’ arrangement of Paul McCartney’s \u2018Blackbird\u2019 at the\u00a0Winter Voices show.”<\/p>\n

Available to listen to on Spotify here >><\/a><\/p>\n

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Voices Choir Playlist\u00a0Song 2: Locus Iste<\/h5>\n

“Choral music has been an integral part to my musical upbringing, having sung in choirs from the age of four thanks to incredibly supportive parents – this is one of my favourite works and one of the very first pieces I performed as a young classical singer. Bruckner uses dissonant harmony and dynamic contrasts to really build tension and emotion in the piece. It can feel quite exposing to sing, but each chord sends a tingle down your spine. I think it’s beautiful and majestic.”<\/p>\n