Virginia Knight outs herself: >I'm a keen singer of choral music, both sacred and secular, usually in >small ensembles. I might as well out myself. My name is Steve, and I'm a choral singer. I've recently joined a small choir in New Orleans, Louisiana, after about 15 years of not bothering to sing in choirs. Unlike several places in the UK, New Orleans isn't exactly steeped in a classical choral tradition, although it has many really good gospel choirs (Mahalia Jackson came from here). I finally realized that I haven't got many years left to sing, and that I can't afford to wait for the next Robert Shaw to snap me up. So I'm singing. For me, as a string quartet's bedrock repertoire is Haydn, the choir's mainstay is the a cappella music of the Renaissance. This music develops almost all the skills necessary. I think a cappella singing more "hard-core" than accompanied singing, with the exception of Bach's music. I'd been working on an annotated list of great choral works, but it seems to have disappeared in a hard-disk crash. Sorry. Steve Schwartz