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"Sing, Choirs! A collection of favourite anthems for general use." Arranged and edited by John Baird.

This resource is for the choir, a cost-effective way of creating a collection of most of the church's well-loved anthems in one book.


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Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church’s popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year.

A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selection of movements from the Mass can be used to enrich the music of the liturgy in services.

Newly published by Novello, many of the works in Sing, Choirs! are presented in their original form, such as Bruckner's Locus Iste and Mozart’s Laudate Dominum. Others are arrangements, adaptations or longer pieces, abridged to bring them into the scope of a useable anthem, including choral arrangements of Handel’s Largo, the Ave Marias by Schubert and by Bach and Gounod, and Franck’s Panis Angelicus amongst many others.

This collection has practicability as a priority. The Organ parts can be played on either the Piano or the Keyboard.

Much of the music in Sing, Choirs! will be suitable for special occasions, making this an indispensable volume for choirs singing at weekly church services, weddings, funerals and in the concert hall.




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Sing, Choirs!


"Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature."
It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year.

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Date: 05/03/2015 | Posted by Caroline

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When I do count the clock that tells the time...

A new arrangement of John's Sonnet, based on the Shakespeare Sonnet number 12, will be performed in July to mark 400 years since the death of Shakespeare.
More details to follow.

Date: 06/06/2016 | Posted by Anita

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Sing, Choirs! with the Brandenburg Singers and Medici Choir

This month the Brandenburg Singers and Medici Choir presented a programme of music old and new, celebrating John Baird's collection of anthems, psalms and hymns for choirs, recently published by Novello.
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Date: 28/04/2015 | Posted by Anita

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Medici Choir Commission


To celebrate its Diamond Jubilee, Medici Choir commissioned a new work from John - Incarnatus- first performed at St.Sepulchre-without-Newgate in December 2014.


Date: 20/12/2014 | Posted by Anita


The Return of Mouse and Mole

John has written the music for a 30 minute animation film 'Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time' starring Alan Bennett, the late Richard Briers and Imelda Staunton.
It was broadcast on Boxing Day 2013 on BBC1.
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Date: 12/12/2013 | Posted by Anita

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The Flowers of the Forest

An ancient Scots melody forms the basis of this work, first performed in London on St Andrew's Day 2013.
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Date: 25/11/2013 | Posted by Roxane

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Radix malorum est cupiditas!

This theme (Greed is the root of all evil) of John Baird's opera 'Treble Chance', performed at St.Margaret's Church Westminster Abbey in 2013, is as topical in today's climate as when it was first written in 1974.
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Date: 30/06/2013 | Posted by Caroline

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Finishing The Unfinished Mass

Spring 2013 saw the performance of John's completion of the Mozart Mass in C Minor. John contemplates why Mozart never completed this great work.
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Date: 17/02/2013 | Posted by Anita

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