I slowly open the big wooden door, not knowing what was about to happen. My first day of show choir, I have a mixture of excitement and nerves bubbling in my stomach. I walk into the room and a wave of chatter hits me. My nerves rise as I look around at all the girls that already know each other. I start to doubt my ability to make friends when I feel like such an outsider. Flash forward three years it the first day of show choir my senior year. Now I’m one of the people talking and catching up with everyone. Some of my best friends are in from this program, I can’t believe I ever felt like an outsider in what now is my second family. Show choir has had a large impact in my life teaching me confidence, leadership, and responsibility. At the start of my first year of show choir I was hesitant to perform in …show more content…
front of people especially sing by myself! Show choir has taught me to push myself and be confident going into whatever situation I might face..
Performing a lot more because of show choir and having the family dynamic supporting me even pushed me to get a solo in my church’s choir musical. Because of the performing I am more comfortable speaking in front of large crowds, and trust in myself that I can do more than I thought I ever would my freshman year. Show choir also helped me with my leadership skills. My sophomore year I got the opportunity to be a dance captain. At first whenever the directors would put me and the other dance captains in charge the girls would talk and wouldn’t listen. Because girls couldn't focus and take it seriously we struggled at some of our competitions. I blamed myself for the loses, but I had to learn to overcome my own challenges and to grow to be a better leader. After we came together as a group and talked about what we all could do better. I learned ways I can be a better peer leader and have grown from it. It has helped me gain and be strong in other peer leadership opportunities such as being my class’s co-president. Finally show choir has helped me with
responsibility. I have always felt like I was fairly responsible, but you really gain an understand of what it means to be responsible when there are fifty other people counting on you to do your loading job or know your dances. I have seen first hand what happens when someone you are depending on doesn’t follow through. When you are a part of a family like this, not only do you let yourself down but the rest of the group as well. Taking what I have learned throughout my time in show choir these last four years will help me tremendously in college. I understand and am ready to take on the responsibility of the work load, I know my experience as a student leader will help me when dealing with different situations my whole adult life, and finally show choir has helped me gain the confidence that will help me strive to be ready what comes my way in the next four years.
The choirboys by Joseph Wambaurgh is it a depiction of how ten urban police officers cope. This novel is a dark and powerful comedy with the ending of a tragedy. Five sets of Los Angeles Police Department officers on the night watch at Wilshire division come together after patrol at MacArthur Park and rewind from the past day. Spermwhale Whalen and Baxter Slate partners of 7-A-1, Sam Niles and Harold Bloomguard partners of 7-A-29, Spencer Van Moot and Calvin Potts partners of 7-A-33, Calvin Potts and Francis Tanaguchi partners of 7-A-77, Roscoe Rules and Dean Pratt partners of 7-A-85.
Elana Sanguigni April 18, 2016 Honors Music Term Paper. The Wind Ensemble and Concert Band reflect a rich history. The formation of the Concert and Wind Ensemble bands dates back to the Middle Ages and Medieval Times. The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble have evolved over the years, due in part to significant historical events, music combinations, individuals, and progress.
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.
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.
I pretty much felt like an outcast when I began high school. Most of my classmates still had their friends from middle school, whereas mine went to the neighboring high school. Having social anxiety really didn’t help me either. It was hard for me to make eye contact with others or even bother to introduce myself to new people. In the first few weeks of high school, something had caught my eye. There were flyers advertising auditions for ‘The Little Mermaid’ production. Taking the risk, I decided to audition. Through the auditorium doors there was a grey table with upperclassmen talking to other students. Located on the table were different character scripts and a clipboard for signing in. One of the strangers approached
Since the age of two, I have been dancing. I have been involved in lyrical and classical ballet, contemporary, pointe, hiphop, jazz and tap. When I turned 6 I also took up gymnastics. Through middle school I danced, and did gymanstics as well as softball and soccer. I loved these sports but when high school hit, I had to pick one and I chose cheerleading. I chose this sport because it was not only a extraordinary team athletically but they were extremely involved with the community. We had fundraisers for less fortunate children multiple times and even got to interact with them every winter. The leadership role on the cheer team taught me so much, we lead the entire student body to have school spirit and respect at the football games every friday night. My senior year I decided to switch back to dance and tried out for my high school dance team, and made it! It has been such a blessing to me by showing me even more leadership and how to serve others at our school and in the community.
Even if I didn’t make it, I don’t think anyone realizes what you learn when training in this profession. Musical theatre has allowed me to step up, commit to my work, become more confident and to have fun! You learn to become focused and pay more attention to detail. Building sets, reading scenes and learning music betters your communication and listening skills. All of these skills I have acquired over the last few years and I they are still helping me to grow. I think my biggest take away from this past summer is to become more confident as a person and in my work. Confidence is a big part of doing musical theatre. Some people having no confidence or a little too much. Trying to gain confidence has made me appreciate my body, the little things and what I do. I have already had many people come up to me at school and tell me that they’re loving my new glow confidence and love for myself. Overall, I see why people doubt the career, but they only consider the outside results. Musical theatre has made me the person I am today and I will never forget
Last Sunday I had the opportunity for the first time, to listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir live. I was able to attend “Music and the Spoken Word” which is the longest continuous network broadcast in the world. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed with roughly 360 members and were conducted by Mack Wilberg. They were accompanied by a phenomenal organist, Richard Elliott. The organ he performed on has 5 keyboards, 11623 pipes and 32 footpedals.
In June of 2017, I was only seven years old and my mother was a Girl Scout troop leader at the time. She had organized a trip to take a group of Girl Scouts from Alamance County to Washington, DC for the National Girl Scout Sing-A-Along and SWAP Day. The National Sing-a-Along is just what it sounds like, Girl Scouts from all over the United States getting to together and singing. Imagine you are in a big open field surrounded by woman and girls who want to make a difference who want to make a change and all those powerful women with so much potential gathered in one place raised in one voice is the most awe struck feeling I have ever felt in my 18 years of living. SWAPS are little crafts girls make with their troop and then they gather with
Theatre has heavily evolved over the past 100 years, particularly Musical Theatre- a subgenre of theatre in which the storyline is conveyed relying on songs and lyrics rather than dialogue. From its origination in Athens, musical theatre has spread across the world and is a popular form of entertainment today. This essay will discuss the evolution and change of musical theatre from 1980-2016, primarily focusing on Broadway (New York) and the West End (London). It will consider in depth, the time periods of: The 1980s: “Brit Hits”- the influence of European mega musicals, the 1990s: “The downfall of musicals”- what failed and what redeemed, and the 2000s/2010s: “The Resurgence of musicals”- including the rise of pop and movie musicals. Concluding
So far, my favorite part of WPI is the a capella group that I am a part of. I am a part of the Ketones a Capella group, who invited me to join after the auditions (I auditioned for all three of the ensembles that accepted women). This would be my second time participating in an a Capella group; the first time was in the sixth or seventh grade, but I don’t remember it too well, so this experience still felt like a fresh and new start for me. I have really come to appreciate how different singing a capella is from singing with music. It’s a lot cooler to have every sound in the song come from the mouths of the people around you, including yourself, and adding up to form something amazing.
On the Nineteenth of December, as snow fell outside, The Timberline High School Choirs and Orchestras put on a Holiday Celebration that can’t quite be called a concert, It was more of a spectacle centered around music. The night began with the A Capella Choir’s procession into the dark auditorium. While processing, the men in the choir began singing Alleluia, Rejoice with bright, forward, and powerful tones. This beginning to the concert set an energetic tone for the rest of the night.
For my concert report I listened to the three pieces selected for students who couldn’t make it out to a concert. The pieces combine last around 34 minutes and 64 seconds. There were four pieces listed; however, one of them had been removed from YouTube. So I could only listen to three pieces. The first piece performed was Prelude and Fugue in D minor composed by Bach.
When I think of the performing arts, I think of plays. The combination of the live performance and the acting of the script, that’s what makes it a Performing art, right? Yes, but what I did not know is that Dance is also a performing art. Magic, music, even movies are examples of the Performing Arts. When asking the question, I found myself learning about examples and different types of the arts rather than what the definition of what a performing art is. The variety of genres under Performing arts are constituted by the abstract qualities that make up a performing art. To put it simply, the performing arts include a kind of performance. The Performing arts are a combination of both Visual Arts and Literary arts, due to how they are used in
During high school I participated in dance team, football and basketball cheerleading, marching band, color guard, concert band, jazz band, pep band, choir, select choir, drama, Resistance Skills Leaders, National Honor Society, GSA, Skills, Big Buddy, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and speech. I always had something to do, and I enjoyed staying busy. Participating helped me find a place in school. In big school participating gives you a new group of friends. Perry is not very big, so everyone that I was on a team with, I already knew. Doing all of the extra curricular activities that I did, really helped me develop strong emotional bonds with many people that I knew. It taught me to encourage others and that positive reinforcement will always work better than punishments. It showed me that being a leader isn’t about because the person with all of the ideas or the most vocal person, but being the person that inspires others to be creative and help share their thoughts and to lead them in the right direction.