I attended Chorale rehearsal Wednesday the 11th from 1- 1:50pm. I arrived before most of the students in the group and I sat in the audience. As the students started to arrive they would all grab their numbered books and go straight to their spots. Rehearsal began right on time and everybody was there. They started rehearsal off with a prayer, and then the director, Ryan Smit, had the people in the back row make sure the shelves were aligned to make sure the sound was going to sound right. They all then went through a series of stretches and voice warmups, like diction practice and peeling off lead by the director. Before they even started singing they went through all of their warmups and took them very seriously. They also had announcements
Overall, I was very impressed by the concert and I feel that the rest of the audience was also impressed. The expectations for the members of the Chamber Orchestra are high and those were met, but I feel that the expectations for the choral group were not as high. My expectations for the choir were not very high and they were immensely exceeded. The level of talent in that group was something that I was really not expecting at all.
On March 13th the Rochester Oratorio Society and Houghton College Choir performed at the Hochstein Performance Hall in the city of Rochester. It was a predominately vocal concert with an accompanying pianist. The main performance of the evening was the Rochester Oratorio Society’s rendition of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem,” in which vocal soloists Elena O’Connor and Benjamin Bloomfield took the front stage, and Linda Boianova joined Kevin Nitsch as a second pair of hands behind the piano.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one the world’s well-known choir since its one of the prominent and oldest. The choir started out as an insignificant group, but rapidly began to be more popular as the years progressed. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a chorus of 360 men and women in total. They have entertained millions of spectators by performing in places such as at the “World’s Fairs and expositions at inaugurations of U.S. presidents, in acclaimed concert halls from Australia and Europe to Asia and the Middle East” (Mormon). “In 1929, the Choir began broadcasting Music & The Spoken Word on radio” (Mormon). Now they have various radio and television stations. The Mormon Tabernacle has been broadcasted live all over television and several social media sites. They are also known as “America’s Choir” because people all over the world enjoy their harmonious music. Each member has a distinctive voice and their belief in god, makes this effort to influence others through music. The choir is “an ambassador for ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” their music surpasses the traditional restrictions, which led to numerous people bonding universally through music. The Choir performs at least two sessions per year, and they also have a demanding calendar which they must follow. The Choir grew successful by the aptitude, commitment and dreams of its leaders. Every single person in the choir and others outside the Choir helped the Choir be cultivated and helped them develop into the enormous Choir that they are today. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir also has a school where students train known as The Temple Square Chorale. They aid students by assisting them with their vocal skills and music reading skills. When a...
The final event I attended was the All-East Men’s Choir concert, held Saturday, November 19th, 2016 in the Ronald and Lynda Nutt theatre in the Clayton Center at Maryville College. This was an all-male choir that participated in the All-East choral competition in order to be scored on how well they performed their pieces. The choral music professor Stan McGill conducted this performance, with Webb’s School of Knoxville’s Jean Helbig accompanying. The choir performed six songs during their concert, but in this essay I will be discussing three: “Freedom Come”, “Tell My Father”, and “Pirate Song”.
On November 16th, 2013, I attended a concert choir, fall choral concert. This event took place on the Wheaton College Campus, in the Edman Chapel at 7:30 pm. The chapel was well-lit, with long pews for the audience to be seated. The concert began with the audience looking up into a balcony, where the ensemble stood in neat rows. They watched the conductor, who stood on a stage in front of the audience, waiting for their cue.
Practicing the song and motions for the Waseca Marching Indoor Concert is nerve-racking, especially since this will be the final opportunity to practice with the high school band. I walk into the dim gymnasium and line up with the woodwinds. When all of the other musicians are in line with their sections, a bass drummer signals for the music to begin. I completely forget about my uncertainty and focus entirely on the music and the motions. While I play I remind myself what the next move is and I verify that I am moving with the woodwinds. After the song is over I am confident that I will do well for the Indoor Concert. Being in the Waseca Marching Band is difficult considering that it is necessary to memorize the actions and the music, and
...s in this class, and that’s great because that’s exactly what the choir and organ performed next. It was very upbeat and more happy-sounding than anything since the Offertory had been. The "Post-Communion Prayer" was accompanied by organ, as was the "Blessing and Dismissal." Everyone sang along with the Organ on the last hymn. Then, the organ played another slasher tune to mark the Postlude, and the cultish figures in robes made some more laps around the sanctuary and vanished out a side door. As they passed people started breaking for the door, before the organ had even stopped moaning. I stuck around until the final chords had been ground out and the candles had been extinguished, then I tried to gracefully leave, and was only mildly rude to the guy in a robe and a hat with a topknot standing outside who kept asking if I was going to come back next week.
Once the service started, my friend showed me where the schedule for the service was and what each number meant. There were different colors of numbers in the book and those indicated what section the reading or song was coming from. This was different from the church that I attend because we have a choir and a band that plays the songs and if you wish to join in you can but for the Catholic Church there is, no choir and the members of the church are the ones who sing. After some singing, the priest came up to talk and this is very different from what I expected. I was used to flipping through the channels and seeing the catholic churches with the priest who were a ...
The Black Voices, Gospel Choir, had a huge impact on the lives of students in the study. It helped African American students to create a sense of belonging on predominantly White Institution. By establishing a sense of belonging on campus, while reducing feelings of marginalization, gospel choir participation enabled African American students at a PWI to persist in college. The Black Voices afforded participants opportunities to develop ethnic pride and understanding. Despite differences in the impetus for their involvement in the gospel choir, participants identified advancing knowledge about Black culture and the Black community on campus, representing the Black race to White peers and faculty members, and learning about one’s own culture.
On Wednesday, May 23rd, I attended the College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksongs. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Farnum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs.
Two weeks before school even started, the Hotchkiss High School Marching Band began its march to the state-qualifying competition in Delta. We worked four hours a day for five days, getting our fundamentals going and getting a feel for our new show. Once school did start, we started practice at 7:00 a.m. and went for two hours every day, working on music and marching. Our band was once again small (eighteen people!), but our sound was great. It was actually easier trying to teach a smaller group because of the difficulty of the moves we were attempting. Of course, I didn't help matters much by my trials of congeniality with the podium. I figured if I didn't fly off with flapping of my arms, then surely I would walk right off the stand.
Thank you for your email and for taking the time to talk about the incident today at the band rehearsal. I talk to Mel about the incident and he was upset because he was very tired at the end of the school day, he told me that he didn’t throw anything at you. In our conversation, I asked you directly if he throws anything at you as you mentioned in your email and you said that he DID NOT throw anything at you. It is important to clarify the incident and that we are on the same page. As I see it it is a misunderstanding but sadly since you wrote that in the email I went in person to clarify it because as a responsible parent I understand that if he did that isn’t acceptable behavior regardless what may cause him to be upset. As you are aware
Masterworks Ancient and Modern On Sunday October 18, 2015 at 7:00 pm, Sarah and I traveled downtown to the City Performance Hall to watch the Orpheus Chamber Choir's production of Masterworks Ancient and Modern. This was the third time I have attended an Orpheus Chamber Choir concert and every time I am impressed by the choir's excellent musicianship. The pieces performed at the concert included a mixture of traditional and contemporary works. The traditional works were composed by well-known composers such as Bach, Mendleson, Gabrielli, Byrd, and Lobo.
Throughout high school, I was involved in my church’s youth group praise team as both a vocalist and an audio/visual helper. Looking at our praise leader from a distance, the role seemed so easy and attractive as everyone was so fond of her. When I became a senior, I became the co-leader of the praise team, and that’s what I realized the role wasn’t as effortless as I thought. The first week of practice went terribly. It took forever to set up mics and instruments, the sound check and set run-through was terrible, and the atmosphere was very tense. I could not stop thinking about what went wrong and so I messaged the old praise team leader. After discussing with her, I realized I was approaching the position of the praise leader and running
I was also surprised at the different types of music playing from each team. All the music blurred together so you would hear different types of songs every time you listened. Finally, I found where my team was supposed to go and walked over to find them all stretching. I found my coach and saw her smiling,” You girls all ready?” she asked. We mumbled an answer overwhelmed by the competition. Our coach already told us that no team from West Union had ever won. So our hopes weren’t high. After we finished stretching we ran through the routine a couple of times. By that time I was super nervous. Before I realized it we had to make our way to the competition