Music has affected my entire life as I grew up and has grown to be a talent of mine. Starting in fourth grade, I joined choir and have moved up all the way to Chamber Singers at Bonita High School, the top choir available there. Though my years, I have learned music has a large impact on who I am, as it was implemented into my childhood. As of now, I sing and play percussion at my church, playing drums and Cajon. My musical ability has transformed as I have grown older, expanding as I mature. In fourth grade, with little music experience, I began to learn how to understand music. As an extracurricular, I spent time after school with choir to learn something new. This not only taught me at an early age to manage time with school, but also to …show more content…
The choirs at the middle school were of a higher caliber than the elementary choir. The new choir director, the large campus, and the increased ability extended the middle school’s capabilities. My ability grew in the days of practicing, which was every day. I obtained a few solos, which felt like a big accomplishment in my life at that point. Solos were very selective as most of the choir wanted one. With this expansion of my range occurring slowly, I became a tenor, or upper men range, in choir by the time I reached the top choir in middle school. At the time, it was incredible to have four parts in a single choir be able to sing memorized, as opposed to two parts previously. Also, the social skills learned in elementary helped me recover from being antisocial in seventh grade. I joined a group of people who have become my friends who were in choir and still are with me. Middle school opened my eyes to the possibilities of musical ability in my life with my …show more content…
I was able to first tenor for all of my years, which finally expanded my junior year to be able to sing lower as my voice finally dropped. During sophomore year, the top two choir, Chamber Singers and Concert Choir went to San Francisco for the Festival of Gold; I was in Concert Choir with my friends. Concert Choir achieved third place in the competition, while Chamber Singers obtained first, showing the choir’s ability of music. This trip was the highlight of my year as it was a new experience to travel out of Southern California for a competition we were invited to. For my senior year, I was placed in Chamber Singers for my ability in music vocally. This school year, Chamber Singers and Concert Choir is invited to sing on Broadway as the chorus in the musical “The Secret Garden.” This will be the first time I will go to New York, so I am excited to see that the ability of my choir has allowed us to be prestigious. Choir has been implemented into my school career and I found it interesting to see my ability vocally to
On a Wednesday night I saw Texas State Theatre and Dance Department's performance of A Chorus Line. The main plot of the musical entails the audition of 17 dancers for several Broadway roles on the chorus line. However, during their auditions the director Zach asks for personal stories of each dancer's life. Though the plot of this musical is seemingly simple in its twist on the traditional audition, it explores themes that reveal the human experience, the search for individuality, and the sense of self.
Within school, I have participated in Glee Club/Chorus and Drama Club. I have a strong interest and love of both and hope to continue with them in the future. Last year, I had the privilege of being selected for our school's select choir, North Naturals. The Congregation Sons of Israel in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania honored us with the chance to perform at their annual Holocaust Memorial Service. The Messiah College Women's Choir also invited us to perform as a guest in their annual spring concert, in which I performed a solo, along with some members of the Women's Chorus. This year, I consider it a great prestige to say I participate in my school's select choir for ninth- and tenth-graders- Cantamos. In Drama Club, I have performed a variety
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.
As I grew older I realized that the desire I had was not only to communicate emotions to others, but to do so in a manner that would improve their own life. I began to sing with my youth group praise team, choir,
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
I’ve always loved music and singing, even as a kid. It has always been my passion. Performing on stage is what actually broke me out of my shell. Going into highschool I was very awkward and shy, but music helped me conquer my social awkwardness. Music has helped me give back to my community in ways I never thought of, seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I sing is one of the greatest feelings ever and I cherish it, and the applause when I’m done makes me feel all warm inside. Performing and helping others perform is something I love to do and it helped me find my place in the world. Learning a new song is fantastic experience as well.
Music has always been an important part of my life. Upon entering the fifth grade, my parents bought me a flute, at my insistence. After moderate success playing the flute, I saw greener grass on the other side of the musical fence. Singing just had to be easier than making music with a long metal pipe. My perception and reality did not exactly match. Singing has its own subtleties and complexities which are not readily apparent to the casual observer. Abandoning the flute for singing, I began taking voice lessons in the tenth grade. My voice teacher was very experienced and encouraged me to pursue my interest in music beyond high school. After much deliberation, I decided to major in voice during college. This path would be fraught with unforeseen difficulties and exciting challenges.
I also had something new that helped me relate to a huge group of people. Music became the biggest part of my life around the beginning of middle school, I didn't really know anybody at my school other than a couple of Mexican kids that came from my elementary school, because my elementary school was mainly hispanics I struggled getting used to being surrounded by people of all races and had a harder time connecting. The good thing about music is that it's popular all over the world, look at
When I was in elementary school, State Road always had assemblies and invited people to come perform for the students. During one assembly we walked down to the cafeteria and when I got down there I saw the High School Jazz Band. After listening to the sweet music I felt inspired and I wanted to learn how to play an instrument one day in the Jazz Band. In middle school I learned how to play the trumpet and wanted to become a good musician so I practiced and worked on my tonality. When I finally got to symphonic band in high school I was nervous because I knew I was one step closer to being in the Jazz Band.
Music has always played a major role in my life. I began my life as a musician at age seven when I started taking piano lessons. Having to learn independently and contributing extra time out of school was a challenge for me. Committing to regular practice and music theory homework would certainly appear as a burden in the eyes of many young children. I nearly quit.
Music has absolutely been an enormous part of my life and who I am. However,
I attended the District Choir Festival, held at Dixon Middle School on March 27, 2018. At this choir festival, I was able to watch and evaluate the Dixon Middle School Concert Choir and the Centennial Middle School Chamber Orchestra in their performances. Both choir’s sets began with the choirs filing on stage. Both choirs looked very uniform and professional, although the Dixon Concert Choir was considerably larger than the Centennial Middle School Chamber Orchestra. The Dixon Middle School Concert Choir proceeded to sing three songs; “Festive Alleluia”, a foreign song that had a title that sounded like “Etinee Tehr a Bax”, and “Rock me Lord”.
Playing the music with the group required superb listening skills, so we could stay together in the song. Since the flute choir was successful at these techniques, we earned a first at state my sophomore year, and a second at state last year. Being a part of school activities and the community teaches valuable life
This past week I had my first choir concert; it was a really enjoyable experience. I wore a long black gown with low heels and it felt great to be apart of something. All the girls in my class wore the same outfit and we looked beautiful. The concert started off with the men’s choir going first and then the women’s choir went. Before going on stage I will admit I was a little nervous.
Being in choir all my life has allowed me also to learn not just about pop music but also classical and Latin music. Learning classical music and Latin music has shown me how to round my vowels to pronounciate better which goes hand and hand with pop because that opens up your vocal register and allows you to sing better. For the past two years, I have been a member of my school’s selective group, Girls Knight Out, which has allowed me to spread my