With the help of conductor, James Davey, Tessa provides an active demonstration of how music can be used to remove the communication barriers between hierarchical cultures and bring us together. Watch Tessa’s talk on TED TV
Stewarts Law’s Leeds office has decided set up a choir through Music in Offices (www.musicinoffices.com). This is an organisation that pairs up would-be workplace choirs with local conductors. In London they work with businesses such as The Guardian, Channel 4, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, UBS, Herbert Smith and, of course, Stewarts Read more…
Paul Guest profiles this innovative adult education project as four choirs compete for the title of 2012 Office Choir of the Year
‘Singing your way through the recession? It could sound a bit flippant as unemployment rises and house prices fall…’ said Mike Ramsden on BBC London Tonight. I disagree completely. Read the Institute of Psychiatrists Essay
From The Oldie, 06/08/2011, Sarah Shannon Do hard-nosed news hacks have a soul? Certainly, if the combined musical efforts of Channel 4’s Jon Snow and Guardian editor Alan Rus-bridger are anything to go by. Before an invited audience in the splendidly restored Christ Church Spitalfields the other evening, their poignant Read more…
Staff in tune with the office.
Moving into new offices can be a boost to a firm in a lot of different ways. For Norton Rose, it brought music. At the suggestion of an associate, the firm’s London riverside offices, which it has occupied since 2007, feature a music room complete with piano. In collaboration with Read more…
Music In Offices’ showcase concert on February 11th 2009 makes BBC London news with special appearance from the Guardian Angels and Alan Rusbridger.
From The Guardian, Thursday 4 June 2009 Few topics divide a workplace as strongly as that of the office choir. It is not a simple two-way split between can and can’t sing, but raises all sorts of issues around self-regard, camaraderie and general wellbeing. On Tuesday night, in the glorious Read more…