Aug 28, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
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Angela SharpGuest
Kerry PolkinghorneHostTell me about when you said you wanted to arrange things the way you heard them.
How did you hear them and how did you eventually find that that was well received?
I've long been a fan, probably for the last 20 years, of choosing repertoire for the choirs that I run that is not standard repertoire.
I wanted just to have the choir sing some other songs that were perhaps not deemed to be choral songs.
I was intensely curious to see if I could write an arrangement to make that particular song sound fantastic by two, three, four, five part choir, whether it's females mixed.
And I still get really curious about that and I think Lay in bed many, many nights singing different parts of the harmony, much to my poor husband's demise.
Because I can still hear all those harmonies going on in my head and then sometimes I have to get up and write them down because I can't sleep until they're out of my head.
And choirs who bring that to life because you've got these ideas in your head, you've written them down.
Really, it's one way incredibly selfish because when they first try it, usually they hate it or it's really negative, lots of whinge and whine.
But after a couple of weeks, you can see the eyebrows changing and they go, oh, actually, this is kind of cool.
Do they trust the process now, these days, a bit more? Or you still get the whinging? A little less.
Tell me about when you said you wanted to arrange things the way you heard them.
How did you hear them and how did you eventually find that that was well received?
I've long been a fan, probably for the last 20 years, of choosing repertoire for the choirs that I run that is not standard repertoire.
I wanted just to have the choir sing some other songs that were perhaps not deemed to be choral songs.
I was intensely curious to see if I could write an arrangement to make that particular song sound fantastic by two, three, four, five part choir, whether it's females mixed.
And I still get really curious about that and I think Lay in bed many, many nights singing different parts of the harmony, much to my poor husband's demise.
Because I can still hear all those harmonies going on in my head and then sometimes I have to get up and write them down because I can't sleep until they're out of my head.
And choirs who bring that to life because you've got these ideas in your head, you've written them down.
Really, it's one way incredibly selfish because when they first try it, usually they hate it or it's really negative, lots of whinge and whine.
But after a couple of weeks, you can see the eyebrows changing and they go, oh, actually, this is kind of cool.
Do they trust the process now, these days, a bit more? Or you still get the whinging? A little less.
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