Singers and audience alike enjoy the well-loved repertoire. It is so nice to be bathed in familiar tunes that make you feel at home. Audiences rarely fail to be stirred by Faure's Requiem or Mozart's Mass in C Minor. For singers it is often a relief to open the music and find that it won't be a sight-reading battle. Sometimes though, choirs and singers prefer to live rather more on the edge. There are Musical Directors who commission new works or dig deep into the musical archives to find pieces that challenge the singers and excite their audiences. Fashion applies to composers and their works and it is often hard to keep your place in the sun. It seems hard to believe...Read More