hey choir.

please bring laudate dominum tonight (1st july)
thankyou:)

hello everybody:)

back to school! i hope you enjoyed you holidays:)

anyway, please look through the following scores (fill in solfege if you need to) for wednesday-

stabat mater

laudate dominum

doo wop (should be memorized for the concert)

the prayer (KEY CHANGE ALERT)

as you know, we have VERY VERY FEW PRACTICES LEFT before the arts festival, so try to learn up as much of the music you can at home, so we can focus on polishing during the rehearsals.

don't stress don't stress, but have a sense of URGENCY:D

you can ask the SLs/SCs/pretty much anybody for help if you need any.

faith, trust and teamwork! (i just felt like saying that but really, it applies in pretty much any situation)

yeah see you guys on wednesday!

-alison

HEY EVERYBODY.

hello russia peeps, i miss seeing your sleepy faces in the lobby every morning:)

just wanna say that i'm really really proud of all of you. we've grown so so so much since we started rehearsing together, technique wise and as a family.

i hope you all had fun in St P making new friends and performing and everything. it was great, wasn't it?

to the home team, thank you for your support and prayers:D

we were, at least i was, thinking of you all alot.

hope you had a great holiday:)

rmb to learn up the july pieces, by when i don't know O.O

see you all in school xP

-aly

HEYYY CHOIRRRR!!!!

WE'RE BACK IN SINGAPORE. unfortunately. hehhh miss st. petersburg.
but still I'm sure we'll have just as much fun here in singapore as we did there.
hope y'all have learnt something from this trip.
and take back something else other than the two gold cups.
xPPP.

ok i'm out of stuff to say.

xDDD
christie

Hey everyone!

I have an announcement to make...AHEM!!

The MGS choir has done us proud yet again. The choir representing us in Russia have taken part in the Sacred and Children's Category, yesterday and today respectively, under Ms J Tham and Mr A Tay respectively. They have attained a GOLD result in BOTH categories!!

To God Be The Glory!

Love,
eli

HEY (non-touring) CHOIR~

russia's great. MISSING YOU ALL.

we've done touring and rehearsals the past few days, and a combined rehearsal/exchange with a vocal ensemble as well as a concert with them.

another concert today, and we're competing tomorrow and the day after.

st petersburg is very very pretty. it's getting colder by the day and I love it:)

yeah just thought I'd give you guys an update.

~~~~

to the touring choir:
I'M REALLY PROUD OF ALL OF YOU.

and remember to be at the lobby by 10.30am.

lub
-aly

HEY CHOIR!!! =D

I know majority of us will be in Russia now, but...nevermind! To all those in Russia, if you get to see this in time, ALL THE BEST AND I LOVE YOU! I am SO proud of all of you! You really sounded quite good at the practices last week. Trust in God, and I'm sure you'll all do well. VERY WELL. =D Haha, ya know, when I was at the airport to send you all off on Saturday, I felt so out of place!!! Like, you guys have grown so much, I had no duty there anymore! OH NO!! Alumni, HERE WE COME! =D I don't know how the other Sec 4s feel about it, but though it will be SO sad, change is not that bad....is it? AHEMFAREWELLAHEM!!!

Anyways, choir, do us proud, kay? All of the choir in Singapore probably are all ripping our guts apart in worry, so...and, BTW, doing us proud does not mean getting a Gold or anything like that. Just means that you've gotta do your best, and glorify God.

LOVE YOU ALL!!!
eli

ps. my posts are getting shorter and shorter....

HEYYY CHOIR!
WE'RE FLYING OFF TONIGHT.
I still cant believe it.
haha dont forget anything kays, apparently it's raining in russia now, it's gonna be so cold.
but even in our excitement, dont lose sight of why we're going there in the first place.
we're not going on holiday.
it's a whole new experience, to be singing somewhere else in the world that we wouldnt normally do in singapore.
I hope that we will conduct ourselves well, and sing to our very best, and give the audience a reason to go WOW.
we sing for the love of the music. enjoy the sound. after all, we are a choir, as a choir, we make music. as a choir, we sing together, celebrate together, and put in all the effort we can.
remember the goals that we set for ourselves yesterday during practice.
dont lose sight of them.

I'll see y'all at the airport tonight.
adios amigos!

xDDDD
christie

HEY touring CHOIR.

WE'LL BE AT THE AIRPORT IN TWENTY-TWO HOURS (give or take)

great job at practice today (or yesterday, whatever)

:D

remember to bring umbrellas and masks and scarves and whatnot.

and remember to bring all the various scores that we need.

see you guys soon~

heyyys people!

we're flying off in 4 days!!!
hope you all are as excited as I am to be going to russia.
it's the last stretch, so we gotta pull ourselves together and just put in all the effort we can, which I know is a lot. xDD. we just gotta focus now.

reminders:
-wednesday, thursday, friday, we have full day choir practices. on thursday the penang choir is coming, so be neatly attired.
-please go learn the russian score, make sure you are able to sing in russian by the wednesday practice i.e. tomorrow
-all scores to be memorised, details all put in.
-bring the 2 chinese new year pieces tmr, and to russia


oh yeahh... recently i've been watching this show called britain's got talent. and this year they've got a lot of good acts. this is just one of them that was quite surprising.
wanted to embed it here, but couldnt, so here's the link if you're interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QHk4n7mhe8
btw, they made it to the finals.
from the video you can see that they really like singing, and in the face of the judges, they proved that they were good enough to pass to the next round.
so what can we learn? we learn that we have to just put our whole heart into singing, and just give it all we got.

xPPP
christie

Heyy!

Choir concert was simply awesome ~ and there's no reason for you to deny it :D

I just wanna congratulate the non-touring choir cause' I think most of us did put in much effort in our work (the dance moves and everything) and this shows that anything is possible when we put our heart into it and if we trust God. :D

Colossians 3:23 (New International Version)

²³Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,

Remember that everything you do is for the GLORY OF GOD :D Dun lose heart and always always strive for the better :D I'm sure the touring choir will do great for the competition coming up real soon :D We'll be counting on you guys ...

As for the Sec 4s who are leaving us soon

wait... you've already left us, we'll definitely miss you lots and lots and yepps! Dun worry and be happy cause the Lord will always be w/ yea :D

Rui Jun '10

HEY CHOIR!!!! =D=D=D

Gosh...I havn't posted here for ages! Detriments of being an O level student...I guess I just wanted to say, GOOD JOB CHOIR!!! =D I'm really proud of each and every one of you. Cantabile holds great memories for me, and I'm sure it will hold great memories for you too. Well, as to how good the concert was...I just hope that you did your best, cause we're not ACS. The best is not YET to be...=} Yes, maybe the concert was not our 100%, but this concert does not determine what happens in Russia. CAUSE I KNOW YOU'LL ALL SHINE THERE!! I hope you enjoyed yourself on Saturday night, cause I did, and just to let you know (again...) I'm really proud of all of you!!

LOVE YOU!
eli

i just wanna say...

GOOD JOB EVERYONE!!
you all did well!
we rocked didnt we!

and

GOOD LUCK FOR MT PAPERS!!
may God be with you!

and

GOD BLESS!!
because we sing
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!

shuuuuuuu ~~ :)

hey choir :)

this is for the competition choir, haha

you have to memorize ALL the competition pieces, and the rest of the cantabile pieces have to be learnt well, but not memorized. As in you don't need to but if you want to, you can. :D

We worked on the sister act songs then the O Virgo Benedicta.

for joyful joyful:

-we have to be sure and take not of when we come in at times eg, bar 26 and bar 44. We also have to know the syncopation and the rhythm of the song.

for Hail Holy Queen:

-have to take note of the * hymn style* and sing it in the hymn style.

-for bar 17;

[this is for sops, sorry i only got the sop part :$]

"salve, salve..." that part, you have to swell. So it's like at "Sal" you crescendo and at "ve" you decrescendo.

-for bar 19, the "ve" has to have a rounded cut-off.

for O Virgo Benedicta:

-[for sop 2] bar 24: need a smooth transition to bar 25.

-bar 62 "lis" has to be held for the full count.

thats all i got :P

*oh, and i dunno if you'll got this, but we have to be in school on Sat by 1pm :D

*on friday, you have to be in school by 8:30. meet at bamboo courtyard in P.E. attire. it ends at 5pm. i think. :) heehee

hope this helped and hope you had fun on your ROCS2 / OBS :)

byebye

lisa

**sorry, i forgot to add this in :$ heehee. We put in the words for O Virgo as well.

hyye choir! :D
this post is torture dedicated for the non-touring members. :D

to all ye people who hath gone for ROCs,
i hope you had fun!
i would have loved to go to Malaysia or OBS.. :(

looks like the concert is coming nearer and nearer..
scared yet? nahh, of course not!
please work hard!
memorize the scores and learn up the dance!

everyone: "did you say.. dance?"

yes i did! the awesome choreography team (of Moi and Siying) came up with a cool dance!
it's for Joyful Joyful. they took HOURS to make it! please thank them!
i love it a lot! :D

everyone: "but we just came back from ROCs! how will we learn?"

well non-touring members, please be in school on the 28th at 7.30 AM!
we hope to perfect everything by 1PM, but be prepared to stay back as late as 5PM..

we only have one practice left. let us make the most of it.

as for Saturday itself, please be at school by 1PM. thanks!

okay as for the songs we need to learn up properly! they are:
- ubi caritas
- hodie christus natus
- let it shine
- joyful joyful
- hail holy queen

*stares* i think there should be more, but these are the ones that need the most perfecting!
ESPECIALLY the Sister Act songs because WE ARE CLAPPING/DANCING TO THEM!!

anyway, to those who have learnt their part of the dance, please teach the ROCs returners if they ask you for help!
we have to work harder and harder, but we will grow and have fun together as a family!

also, please try and sell all concert tickets and cards ASAP!
we must help the choir as the choir has helped us. :)

(oh and for anyone who cares, SJ is coming to Singapore this June! yay!)

God bless and best of luck!
shuuuuuuu (there are 7 'u's in it xD)

Hey Choir!

I really should be doing last-minute homework now, but I figured I might as well post something happy on the blog!

So, this is a randomish video of this doooood who sings on Youtube! And he's like :O

I guess I thought that he had some things we could learn from him, like when you perform, you perform 100%; you can't get embarrassed and pull out and not give your all, cos then you'll look even weirder/lamer. So ya! He does guy and girl parts and imagine if he didn't put in all his effort, he'd come out looking REAAAAAAAAALLY. QUEER.

So yeaaahhhh. When you perform, make sure you give AT LEAST, your 100%!

ENJOY!

-Marian

why hello there.

well CTs are almost over.

my last paper is tomorrow. math. so i should be studying but oh psshhhh.

SO.

we're leaving for russia in about a month, so FULL SPEED AHEAD.

cantabile is SOON. do you know that bile is a digestive juice [secreted by the liver] which aids in the digestion of fats?

so as mentioned earlier, FULL SPEED AHEAD :D

it's all polishing etc (with the exception of let it shine)

and we're gonna do GREAT xP

remember to revise your scores for wednesday!

and once again (just for good measure), FULL SPEED AHEAD:DDD

yeah.

that's about it.

this post was rather random.

at least you got to learn about bile:D

hey choir:D

it's been more than a week since the last person posted.

so i shall post.

sisteract pieces are fun, no?

great job learning BOTH PIECES yesterday xDDDDD

only let it shine left to learn, huzzah!

study hard for common tests

science modular papers for lower sec BLEGH D:

remember to revise you scores!

haha you can look through them when you take breaks from studying :P

i use wayyyy to many smiley faces.

okay.

farewell lovelies.

alison.

heyyos choir!

I would like to remind y'all that we have less than NINE practices left till concert. less than 9 is because on the week of concert, sec2s have ROCs in malaysia, and sec3s have OBS.

so therefore, please go and learn the 2 sister act songs and Let it Shine on your own, and familiarise yourself at least with the layout of the pieces. all competition pieces to be memorised by next week, can? with dynamics and all articulation to be in, plus text. if you have any problems, you better go look for your SLs and ASLs. go ask eli, ruth, yannting.

it's the last stretch of the race, where you really need to focus and head straight for the finish line, but it doesnt just stop there with concert, but you'd still have the momentum to carry through to Tour. and I really hope that we can strive for that. sec1s and other new members, I know this is a very steep climb, and that you'd be nervous for your first ever concert with the mgchoir, but just focus now, and learn up the pieces. cause on concert day, when everyone's so high and yet nervous, you have no time to think about your notes, you just go. and after concert, you dont want to have that feeling that 'I could have done better than that". No. You would want to just give everything on stage. for a fact, you dont just give 100% in choir practice. you give 110%, so that on concert day, you have allowance for other stuff, and then you'd be at 100% during performance. but for now, focus on the pieces, because now is the time to make mistakes, and the time to fix them. We're on the sprinting lane now. all you gotta do is go for it.

so in conclusion, let's give this all we got. if we know that we can do better than this, then just go for it, and do it better. this is no time to hope that your voice would blend in with the stronger people in the section. it's the time for you to step up yourself. if everyone were to sing out, and not be afraid to sing out, think of what we could be like.

take the hint.

xDDDD
-christie-

Dear Choir,

I may not have known all of you personally, or very well, but I'd just like to say goodbye before I go. I know this is a difficult time, for both the juniors and seniors, but I feel that you guys are holding up extremely well under the pressure. It's really not easy to balance everything like you guys are doing, and even though I haven't been in the choir as long as some of the others, I'm so proud of how the choir has grown.

To the juniors - Although it's tough, you are not fighting a losing battle. Just do your best and trust in each other, and you'll accomplish your goals.

To the seniors - I knew you guys better, and I know you know what to do by now, so all I can say is to continue doing a great job in choir.

Being part of the mgchoir family really meant a lot to me, and even once I'm gone I'll still look back on my memories with much fondness. Making music with all of you will always remain one of the best experiences of my life.

Love,

Maria