How choir rocked my world

IT’S all about adding some sparkle to people’s lives,” Caroline Redman Lusher, founder of Rock Choir, says. The choir which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. As well as helping to improve peo

Eileen Hutchings is determined to pass on her love of music

Gloria Hunniford is running a little late for our interview. Not content with filming an episode of Loose Women, she then had a long lunch with friends before squeezing in a dog walk. It wouldn’t be s

While attendance at most churches has been in decline for many decades, a recent trend reversing this trajectory is emerging – that of attending evensong. Evensong (‘choral vespers’ if associated with

Morning, Claudette! What have you got to sing to us today?” “Morning, Claudette! Would you do an old favourite for me? It was the first song that my husband – bless his soul – and I danced to. It’s ca

Choral singers and their music directors around the UK will be raising brimful glasses on 24 September in celebration of Sir John Rutter’s 80th birthday. His music is, after all, buried deep in the mu