So here’s something that most people don’t know: During COVID, one of the things that we did is we created several choral versions of some of the songs from Who is Esther. If you’re involved in a choir—as a singer, or as a choral director or music teacher, or if you run a community choir, school choir, or church choir—we … Read More
Vocal Percussion
During the creation of Sing With Esther, our global program for choirs, we made the decision to enhance the arrangement with the addition of vocal percussion, aka “Beatboxing”. While there is a ton of information, and plenty of examples on the internet (here’s Wikipedia), we thought that we would highlight the work of OUR beatboxer, the very talented Jon Jon … Read More
Sing with Esther – musical preview
Update: The Sing With Esther program is now in a second phase: we’re no longer putting together a virtual choir of our own, but the music remains available for any choirs that are interested in adding (one) or both of these songs to their repertoire – at no cost. Either sign up on the website, or reach out directly. Putting … Read More
Sing with Esther – the plan
OK, COVID hasn’t been kind. But when one door closes, another opens! During the last number of months, the Who Is Esther team has been hard at work on a virtual choir project… Sing with Esther. Since we couldn’t workshop the music directly, we thought we’d take a stab at crowdsourcing the music, through the choir world, and getting feedback … Read More