Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Two of the choirs we shared the stage with this past Saturday will be singing again this coming Saturday. The Men of Note and the Keynotes ...

Really? With all the great music I heard on Saturday night, the song that keeps popping into my head is Blame it on the Bossa Nova! Wow. I...

Harry is still whistling What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor. I loved the music these guys sang! When the Saints Go Marching In was my ...

I loved the French Choir, La Chorale Francophone de la Region de York! I couldn't find much information about them, but I look forwar...

There's a nice article in The Auroran about our concert on Saturday. You'll see the picture that was taken on the second Saturday. ...

April 22 We Are Family met and voted to switch to Higher and Higher. Sam Hall met and rocked. We warmed up with some funny hand-in-the-ai...

The YRCC is on Facebook, and so are the local Sweet Adelines, the York Highlands Chorus. Earlier this week, the YHC posted an interesting ...

We Are Family and Together Wherever We Go met early and sound great! Warm-ups worked on breathing and holding notes for longer and longer ...

Music Eases Cancer Patients’ Anxiety Libby Znaimer po sted a short article on the Zoomer Report on the Classical 96.3 fm website ab...

According to MoneySense, Newmarket is among the best places to live in Canada. We scored 4th in the top small cities category and 10th overa...

Wonderful World Imagine- ending I'll Be There For You All the Little Rivers, C and D Handel Chorus, ending, last 4 bars Next week:...

Ooh. This is good. You can watch this video and I don't have to write anything about sharps and flats. It's all here, and very c...

Lauren gave us a theory lesson on sharps, flats, and naturals, key signatures and accidentals. I'll be writing up something on it too....

I wrote a blog post on an article I read about 15 of the positive effects of classical music for my Musical Empathy Blog . I believe that ...

Yup! Tequila, "Removes shyness and enhances voice." I got it off of a Facebook post. It must be true ;) They always say alcoh...

 We started with a special warm-up: massages and then a blessing circle. We wished ourselves, our friends and our choir love, peace and saf...

Air New Zealand has the best videos! Watch this. You can go to this website for background information on the video.

sing it ♫

It was good to see so many of you on Monday during the March Break. We got lots of good work done. Here's what we did. 1. Get Happy -...

Spring Music Solos Blue Skies Lauren  at 37(b/u: Trix) Tracey  at 45(b/u: Janet) From a Distance Jane : at 6 and 26 (b/u: Da...

1. O Canada: we reviewed the Tenor and Bass Parts at "With glowing hearts we see thee rise", making sure that "glowing" ...

We know this already, but it's nice to hear it yet again.  Choir makes us happy. I like how it says that we have a built-in "st...

Musical Terms - Why Are They All in Italian? This conversation on a CBC Radio Sunday Show, called "Sunday School" is about mus...

February 26th, 2013 is a sad day for the York Region Community Choir. We lost a good friend, a beautiful and inspiring woman, talented s...

The 4 solos and duets for our Spring Concert will be: For Good : Kristen and Todd Home : Heather and Gerry Angel : Bill Woul...

On Monday, February 18th, Family Day Monday, we had a guest. Christian, a York University student came to learn about choirs like ours. His ...

This made me cry (okay hormones might have contributed). They did such a great job! It's spectacular!

I had to start thinking about Spring right after Christmas. I had to choose the songs to sing in June so that we could start learning them ...