After two years of online Festivals, we were looking forward to welcoming delegates to our live one-day event of workshops, repertoire, exhibition and, above all, meeting each other in person again. Sadly the ongoing rail problems left us with no option but to postpone, however, we hope to reschedule an event soon and in the meantime are making some of the online resources available.
New repertoire for everyone has always been an important part of abcd's conventions - whether it's music to use in the primary school classroom or for your experienced chamber choir, over the years delegates have had chance to read through the latest publications from business members, individual composer members and partner choral organisations.
We've now made all the repertoire submitted for abcd Live available to view online and we hope it will provide a useful resource for choir leaders, whatever age or type of group they lead. There are pages of Christmas repertoire and for Young Voices from our publishers and choral partners, and there are also pages of Christmas repertoire and music for Young Voices from our member composers. We've also left the repertoire and exhibition pages up from last year's online festival as a bonus!
Repertoire includes music from publishers Banks Music Publications, Boosey and Hawkes, Friday Afternoons, Hal Leonard Europe, Lindsay Music, Maze Music, Musica Baltica, Oxford University Press, Stainer and Bell, Universal Edition and C D Wiggins Choral Music.
Our member composers featured include Ian Assersohn, Mary Black, Amy Bebbington, Alan Bullard, Ian Crawford, Tom Cunningham, David Fawcett, Chris Hutchings, Alexander L'Estrange and Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, John Sandford, Gordon Thornett and Jonathan Wakefield.
Our Festival site isn't fully public: to view the repertoire pages, you'll need a personalised link, for which we're making a small charge of £10 (£5 if you're an abcd member) to cover costs. Book online below and we will send you a link (please note that this is not automated: if you book out of office hours, there may be a delay in response).
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