Practice on 31/10/12

HALLO PEOPLES OF CHOIR!

Good news: this is the last practice before the 2-week break

Bad news: THIS IS THE LAST PRACTICE BEFORE THE 2-WEEK BREAK! AAAHH!

Mmkay, down to business.

Don’t know what went down during the first half 'cause I wasn't there (read: A SEC1 OR SEC2 BETTER COME AND GET THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD FOR THIS BLOGGER ACCOUNT SOON AND WRITE ABOUT IT) 

But for the second half, for which I was there, we ran through ave maris Stella, and put in the words for it. We were supposed to have learnt that. Miss J Tham had to go through the whole piece, including notes.

Before that, we went through oremus, where we learnt how to sound chim (cheem?) while practicing the tricky notes. I have no idea how to explain it over blog post (perhaps a junior who can do so should get the password and username from me and do it) but it's pretty cool

For Regina celi, Miss Tham told us where the doh changes, because it's an evil piece that changes key very often. People, who were absent, go get it from you SLs or whoever.

After that, Ms Ng came along and gave us a whole list of announcements

1. Sec 1s and 2s who are not going overseas during the 2-week break, miss Tham (not sure which one) would like to meet up with you guys if possible, so keep your options open?
2. We may call for more practices after the 2 week break
3. Please tell lyn whether you've received the angel cards to sell (for all sec 3s, lyn already knows)
4. There will be pre-order forms for cantabile tickets, like last year. Sec 1s and 2s have to hand these in by 19th November, sec 3s by 21st
5. Prague people will have to stay back after practice on the 16th for admin stuff to be sorted out.
6. Prague comm will have to stay back even after that to discuss more stuff
7. For the sec 3s who are just returning from Rocs, as much as possible please try and attend the practice on the 16th November

39 HOURS TO CONCERT 

tell me if i've missed anything out, kay? kay.

ankita 

Practice on 24/10/12 (please read!)

So today the choir managed to complete the ENTIRE SONG (in solfage) INCLUDING DYNAMICS (to a tiny extent) for Ave Maria! WOOHOO! Good job guys! The only thing is… we can do better. We can be more focused during practice so that we can continue to have practices that are at least as productive or maybe even more!

We have exactly 7 full-day practices left to cantabile and therefore, Prague. Do you know how many hours of practice that is? 45.5 hours.

AAARGH!

And think about everything we need to do. Yagi, buwa, ting tan qin, lenggang, ave maris stella, oremus and 2 new scores whose names I’ve forgotten, and all the Christmas carols. We need to learn the notes, learn the rhythm, learn the dynamics and then we need to be in sync with each other, make sure we are in tune and then memorise everything and be good enough to go on stage without clutching our scores.

How are we gonna do all of the above, 8 times over, plus the Christmas carols, in 45.5 hours? If we really put in the effort and really strive to sing well and focus and not get distracted then we can definitely do even better than we have in the past.

another thing that was brought up during practice was that we have a 2-weekish break after wednesday. let's all be very good choristers, work like stakhanov and practice practice practice during this time. then when we come back from break we'll impress both miss thams!

and then, maybe we'll do so well that everyone'll be impressed with our performance that they'll say 'Gee, that choir's brilliant! i'm coming back next year'. and then we'll do really well for the Prague festival and touch all the little old ladies' and men's hearts and we'll be like

Our homework is that we need to put words to the notes for both Ave Maria and Oremus, so make sure that you practice. Miss J Tham told us all about the basic rules for singing in Latin yesterday so I’m sure it won’t be too taxing because we all remember the rules, right? Right!

Regina caeli is on the mixpod, along with the dude’s version of yagi bushi. I couldn’t find the female version for some reason. If you have the link for it, please send it to me.

As usual, if I’ve missed anything out, please tell me so that I can add it in.

Ankita