Hey there, i'm nt much of a singer but i used to join the choir group and carols in my church last time. Most of the songs require parts, and I am always required to sing bass. Sometimes tempted to sing melody too, haha. It's the temptation to sing melody and not bass dat drives me uncomfortable during choir practices and performances.

Not sure if it's related....... but always love choirs in metal songs..... like the intro to Cradle of Filth's Nymphetamine.......

Choirs are fun... I'm in my school's Chamber Choir (We sing at Well's Cathedral now and then)..  doing O Magnum Mysterium at the moment, lovely harmonies and all..

And in the main choir, we're doing Handel's Messiah this year.. last year we did Mozart's Requiem... It's amazing singing with a 200 member choir in a big cathedral with a full orchestra playing and 1000+ people watching...

Oh yeah. I'm also accompanying the St. Cecelia singers in my school, the 'so called' elite of the group....

If you want some good choral music, go listen to Parry's "I was glad", it's really tremendous and grand...

I assume this is the kind of choral music you're talking about?

Well done then! I don't have that chance anyway.. since I'm not in M'sia... Enough of the choirs in UK over here are just amazing.. and my school's choir is just 'among many others'.

I do have one or two.. but we don't record often as we don't have much chance to go down to the cathedral (which is used most of the time by others also).

I don't have them right now though..

Well, I have a recording of it, although I'm not exactly sure how to send it to you. Perhaps you can PM me your email address?

It's basically our choir singing
Ralph Vaughan Williams: O, clap your hands

I didn't have any time to set up any equipment, so I ended up with a below-average quality recording. And this wasn't recorded in the cathedral (although we did sing it there).. so this isn't our best performance. But I'll be happy to let you listen to a bit of it...

eh.. just noticed you here.. i am quite into choir also, but not classical choir.. more towards small little kid sing in group..

mostly in movie whereby small kid sing christmas song, or farewell songs.. i got touched easily with those song. Sometimes celebraties without sing a song together and i would find them very good sometimes too

i'm a choir person too. Was pianist for my school choir back when i was in Secondary school, Bassist (and section leader for a while) for the choir in Victoria Junior College Singapore and lead the choir in my Uni for a while too.

My most memorable performance so far was taking part in a 2 hour concert in the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore. Unfortunately i don't have a recording of it.. They did release it for sale in limited quantities, but i never managed to get hold of one. They even went for the choir olympics in 2000 and had a tour in Europe after that, which i didn't manage to go for since i was already back in Malaysia at that time.

damn jealous of hoongern, i'm sure the quality and level of the choirs in the UK are much higher than those over here.

j dreamer, which school are you from btw?

I just got back from singing Handel's Messiah in Wells Cathedral just now with a 250 member choir and orchestra.. Was amazing (not to mention, tiring). I sang tenor, even though I'm a bass.

Well as UK goes.. my school choir is just average, I'd say.. But it's fun still..

wrong, it wasn't bass singing tenor part... It was bass ATTEMPTING to sing tenor part hehe.. There are decent bits of top G's and A's in his piece which are IMPOSSIBLE to reach (even most of the tenors find it hard getting up there).

It was really a challenge though, keeping the choir in time (the distance between the basses and conductor was about 20 metres).. especially in the reverberant cathedral...

And my voice is half gone now.

Anyway jdreamer, sorry for not passing the recording to you, I can't do it while I'm in a school which blocks just about every attachment and two thirds of the web..