Teachers' choir news
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wiseheartWe've begun to practice for our Eastern concert, which will be on April 23,in the same church the Christmas concert was.
So far, we have four traditional Church carols, although in two- or four-voiced variations (one of them is really dull, but the other three are beautiful)- I don't know whether we're going to learn more pieces or use some of the older ones. They sound fairly well already, and that with only three or four rehearsals. *is excited*
Perchance, I might get to sing the contralto solo in at least one of them, or perhaps in two. I'd very much like the chance. I know I can't carry cold water after the soprano and mezzosoprano solists (as we say it over here), as my voice isn't very strong above a certain height, and most pieces do go above that height. But I have the luck that the other contralto singers aren't as good at this stuff as I am, and feeling needed for the parts is really nice.
Singing is the only other sort of art I'm reasonably good at. Not as good as at writing (if I may be so immodest), but fairly good anyway. I never managed to learn to play an instrument well (although I dabbled in playing the piano, the guitar and the blockflöte) because, frankly, I found practicing borign and botehrsome. I don't have that problem with singing. That's something I readily offer my free time for, and a piece really well sung gives me a deep satisfaction.
It's a funny thing how we crawl into the music room, after 5-10 hours of school work, respectively, drained, tired and grumpy, and - after a hour and a half of singing, giggling and utterly stupid jokes - we leave again, fifteen years younger and of high spirits. We're worse than the kids sometimes - a good thing that our music teacher has the patience of a saint, the poor thing - but it makes us really, really happy. And a happy teacher is a better teacher, right?
So far, we have four traditional Church carols, although in two- or four-voiced variations (one of them is really dull, but the other three are beautiful)- I don't know whether we're going to learn more pieces or use some of the older ones. They sound fairly well already, and that with only three or four rehearsals. *is excited*
Perchance, I might get to sing the contralto solo in at least one of them, or perhaps in two. I'd very much like the chance. I know I can't carry cold water after the soprano and mezzosoprano solists (as we say it over here), as my voice isn't very strong above a certain height, and most pieces do go above that height. But I have the luck that the other contralto singers aren't as good at this stuff as I am, and feeling needed for the parts is really nice.
Singing is the only other sort of art I'm reasonably good at. Not as good as at writing (if I may be so immodest), but fairly good anyway. I never managed to learn to play an instrument well (although I dabbled in playing the piano, the guitar and the blockflöte) because, frankly, I found practicing borign and botehrsome. I don't have that problem with singing. That's something I readily offer my free time for, and a piece really well sung gives me a deep satisfaction.
It's a funny thing how we crawl into the music room, after 5-10 hours of school work, respectively, drained, tired and grumpy, and - after a hour and a half of singing, giggling and utterly stupid jokes - we leave again, fifteen years younger and of high spirits. We're worse than the kids sometimes - a good thing that our music teacher has the patience of a saint, the poor thing - but it makes us really, really happy. And a happy teacher is a better teacher, right?
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Date: 2006-02-02 03:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-02 10:30 am (UTC)And wasn't it St. Augustine who said that singing was praying twice over, or someting?