Being a member of choir has been a journey. I have always loved singing and have been singing solos in church since I was eight years old. When I became a junior high student I knew I had to join the choir for 7th graders. I didn’t know that I would be singing with the same people throughout my junior high and high school choir classes for 6 years. I didn’t know of the camaraderie that I would have for my fellow choir members. Being a part of a choir means that you are included. You know that you have someone to talk to you at lunch or include you in a fun activity. Being in choir also means that you have to learn and practice the music that is given. Sometimes the music is challenging and that teaches us how to work hard. Being in choir …show more content…
We practice the vowels Mee, May, Mah, Moh, Moo and that’s not all. We also have to practice it with the matching hand signs. If you walked in on us not understanding this part of our language it would be very strange. This exercise helps us to practice good vowels. Having good vowels makes us have a better sound, and lets our audience understand what is being said. This helps us sound good in concerts, festivals and other performances. Being in a choir means that we all have the common goal of making good music. Music that makes you cry or laugh. Music that makes you feel something deep within. We try very hard in our choir to sing with emotion and feeling according to the song type. Currently we are singing a kind of halloween themed song called Double, Double Toil and Trouble from the Shakespeare play Macbeth. In this song we get to sing as the three witches who predict Macbeth's future. We as the singers get to cackle like witches and hopefully make our audience shiver with …show more content…
We were required to be in the concert choir called Bel Coro also. We were given music in both classes and it was a lot of music to learn and practice. I didn’t have many hard classes at the time so it was easy for me to go to extra practices and mandatory christmas parties. In all honesty it was a lot of fun, but very time consuming. I had to make the hard decision when picking classes for my senior year. I knew I was going to be taking some very difficult classes like AP Biology, College Math and English and Anatomy and just didn’t know how I would fit two choir classes into that very busy schedule. Finally after a long time of consideration I chose to be in Bel Coro only. I had to take many steps of logic, emotions and gut-feelings to decide. I decided logically this was going to be too big of a workload with concurrent enrollment being weighed down on my shoulders. I also thought about if I wanted to be in any choir at all. Emotionally I wanted to stay with my group and have more fun in my senior year. That was a big determining factor. Would I stay with my group of people who I have been singing with since junior high days? Bel Coro seemed to be the answer. I still got to sing with and be a member of my community with less of a
Choir is a form of musical art. It consists of four different types of groups, and each vocal ranges from highest to lowest. The way people in choir communicate with each other is when they harmonize, they learn about one another through the emotions of a song they sing in unison. Choir is not only for people who can sing, it is
The choir represents the voice of the people, the voice of the masses. People often conform to this uniform truth, they want to be like other people. This conformation leads to a uniform voice from the public. This voice is often ignorant to the truth, seemingly to the point that it creates its own truth.
The begging of middle school our choir consisted of Sopranos, Altos. This was mainly due to the fact that we didn’t hit puberty yet. That year I found my niche. This was exciting for me because I wasn’t like my brothers who are athletic. My 7th and 8th grade year were the years I made a difference. To add on to the Sopranos and Altos the guys were now baritones and that was a big deal. During my 7th grade year we sang Phantom of The Opera. My friend Jon and I sang a duet and received a standing ovation. The following year was just as good due to the fact we sang Broadway medley. I sang Part in the South Pacific song aint nothing like a dame. Later in that piece I had a whistling solo for the king and I. this was so cool to do because people thought I was going to sing and I shocked the by whistling. High school was a big change because we now had 4 parts: Soprano, Alto, Bass, and Tenor. Our choir consisted of 50-60 students and 40 of them were girls. I was very intimidated by this but didn’t let this stop me. I sang tenor and our section was about five people but we were the strongest section. We hosted State Large group which is where judges rate your choir you can receive division 1, 2,3,4,5. One would be the best that you could receive. We also had honor choirs you could go to. I went to one in Waverly, Iowa at Wartburg College called the Meistersingers Honor choir. While I was there I sang tenor 2. This Honor choir was about 600 high school students plus the Wartburg choir. This particular honor choir was special because we sang with Simone Estes, the famous opera
The choir immediately captured my attention and seemed to do the same for everyone else in the audience. I was very impressed by the fact that the choir was made up entirely of college students. It was also stated that some of them sing in the choir just for fun as they are not music majors. There seemed to be an appeal in the fact that the singers were mostly very young. The piece as a whole was also very enjoyable.
Going into middle school choir, she was already a great performer, and her choir director only pushed her further down the right path. Kelsey has been a part of the musical for four years, being a lead for two. "Being a part of the musical changed me more than I realized it would. I'm so close to everyone involved. And I learned to deal with a solid week of no sleep." Said Christian.
Music majors do have some respite from the demands of our discipline. For voice majors, there is choir. Choir provides an opportunity to learn in a more passive manner. The choir director leads the members of the choir toward the desired goal – the mastery of the piece of music to be performed. While choir members must be attentive and receptive, the burden is primarily carried by the director.
BAND! CHOIR! NO BAAAAAND!! WRONG! CHOIR!!!! Does this conversation seem familiar? If you are a music person or a friend of a music person, you’ve probably heard some variation of this argument, and if you haven’t, well now is the great time to hear the true facts of this argument. Every person involved in band or choir at the highschool, knows without a doubt that their program is, of course, the best, however which one is actually? Band is far superior to choir for many reasons. You learn so much more about how to read and understand music, and you are able to more easily apply this knowledge to other instruments and have a much easier transition.
Another technique we have to learn in choir practice is we learn now to pronounce vowels and consonants correctly. An example of that would be pronouncing out “D”s as light “T”s. We also have to keep our mouth round and you cannot smile while you’re singing or else it ruins the effect of the vowels. One thing we always always must do is to pronounce the consonants loudly. What our conductors always make us do to help us remember this is to say “We LoVe ouR CoNSoNaNTS!”.
It’s a very rewarding feeling knowing you’ve helped someone who has been really struggling, and knowing that they trust you with their problems and that they know they can rely on you for assistance when they need it. Being involved with the musicals is some of the most fun i’ve had in my highschool career. I’ve always tried out for the highschool musical and always gotten a part, and just last year I helped the backstage crew of the middle school musical. Just being a part of it is what I like the most, being a single part in an entire production, and i’m the person who was best fit for that specific part. It makes me feel unique and different knowing that I was picked for that certain part. Last year I got my first actual lead as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard Of Oz. It had to have been the greatest experience of my life, I read my script any chance I could because I wanted to make this the best performance I have ever done, and I feel like I had
I am not from a very musical family, so band opened up a completely different world to me. Participating in band allowed me to be more well rounded in my school activities and created a better sense of culture with in me. Playing saxophone in our high school band was an extremely enjoyable experience, I personally enjoyed listening to my part and corresponding parts. Listening to the tones of each individual instrument, as a perfect harmonic sound protruded. It was relaxing as it was a break from my rigorous course load. Band gave me the opportunity to be creative, which was generally absent in my daily life. Having the opportunity to play a musical instrument has also enhanced my intellectual abilities. Studies have shown that playing
This arrangement worked out swell for the first couple of years as I got accustomed to the new school system. However, even though we were given the option to concentrate on the arts or the sciences, there was a slight emphasis on aiming for STEM-based futures, and the elective arts classes available for early college students were more for writing and history than they were visual or performing arts; extracurriculars would be the only way for me to do something different. Nevertheless, my carpool buddies were involved in extracurricular activities that I was not a part of, and the ones that caught my interest happened to be on days they had no reason to stay after school. Driving myself was still financially out of the question, with no car and DACA not fitting into our budget. My family felt that my fellow students and their parents were already going out of their way enough to accommodate me, so I put extracurriculars out of mind for the time being and threw myself into my studies.
Each song we sing tells a story and everyone plays a part in being spot-on and giving their full effort to convey that story to an audience. Although I have not been in choir with a deaf individual, choir reminds me of Deaf culture because both have a strong cultural value of collectivism. In an article published by PEPNet (2004), we read “Deaf people consider themselves members of a group that includes all Deaf people. They perceive themselves as a close-knit and interconnected group”. In other words, both the choir culture and Deaf culture strongly embrace being in the company of others and working with them towards a common goal.
thought of singing in front of strangers, completely freaked me out, I chose choir. Frankly, at
I’ve been in choir ever sense I was in 7th grade, and i made it up to the Accapella choir, which is pretty much the highest choir you can join. We traveled to compete and have won many awards. My junior year of high school i did volunteer work at an assisted living facility where i called bingo, i did that for about three mounts. I tried to continue to do that after i got my first job but the two couldn’t work around each others schedules. I got my first job as soon as i turned 16 i got my hired the same day i turned in my application. I have now worked at Wendys for almost two years, and am now studying to be a crew leader, which is right under a manager position have stayed at Wendys so long because they work around my busy schedule and now i know everyone so well that they are all like family.
From my experience of playing with an orchestra and also a band, I have boosted my team skills, perseverance, responsibility, interaction, and stage fright, all of which are important aspects of being successful in life. While being a part of a band or orchestra, it 's essential that you learn to cooperate with those around you in order to make beautiful music together. The time and effort that it takes in order to learn how to play an instrument teach the qualities of patience and perseverance that almost every musician possesses. Responsibility is also taught while maintaining your instrument in working condition or such as remembering to get to your performance, rehearsals, and making it on time to practice. Being a part of this musical community can also greatly affect anyone 's social skills. Being surrounded by many other musicians who share the same interests as you, makes it easy for a person to open up and create strong