Choir, anyone?

Benisse

Benisse

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I've been in choirs most of my life and have sung every part except bass. (My favorite is alto or tenor though, because those parts are always so interesting.)

Currently I'm helping the sopranos in The Witness, a musical that our church is sponsoring to Japan this summer (I'm still hoping to go pending chemo decisions), although when there is a split I go down to 2nd soprano.

How about you? What part do you sing and what are you rehearsing currently? Or do you have some favorite choir anecdotes or memories?
 
I've been in many choirs and I've enjoyed all of them. I'm not the best solo performer, but I do well in groups. I've usually sung alto, but I sang soprano in my middle school choir.

The choir I've been a part of the longest is the youth choir at my church. We practice on Sunday mornings and sing in the service once a month. I would say that the majority of the pieces we do are seasonal (Christmas, Easter, Lent, etc.). It's a very cool group to be a part of... while it can be annoying to wake up early for practice every week, I always love the end results of our hard work. :) Plus we have an awesome director. She has a very tough personality but she always pushes us to improve. She manages all the choirs from toddlers to high schoolers, which never fails to amaze me.
 
I've been in choir my whole life. Mostly at my church, where I have gone up in rank from the kids choir to the Teen Choir. Unfortunately there is no Teen Choir this year at my church (yeah, that ticked me off -.-) but in school I'm in the highschool choir so I'm still singing.:) My favorite choir memories though are from the 2010 and 2011 Teen Choir tours I went on with my church. The 2010 one was done very locally and our home base the whole week was our church. The 2011 one was the time where we went to Honduras (and my whole family went). Both were extremely Awsomeatic in their own ways. The way our Tour's are set up is that in the day time we work wherever we're told to and at night we sing wherever we're told to. I love Tour.:D Like I said though my church isn't doing Teen Choir this year, for reasons beyond my comprehension. I like my school choir too, I just wish we would sing Christian songs. *sigh* Unfortunately since its a public school that's not likely to happen. (However we did sing some Christian-based Christmas songs this past season at a concert...)
 
I sing in choirs for seasonal musicals [July 4th, Christmas, Easter], but rarely do I sing regularly [kind of a problem since I'm away from home right now]. I do not like having to sit through choir practices, nor can I read music very well. I played piano some, but I have a very hard time reading music for some reason, and an even harder time at reading it when singing. I usually sing soprano, high and low [I can hit pretty high notes when I want to].
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
I sing in choirs for seasonal musicals [July 4th, Christmas, Easter], but rarely do I sing regularly [kind of a problem since I'm away from home right now]. I do not like having to sit through choir practices, nor can I read music very well. I played piano some, but I have a very hard time reading music for some reason, and an even harder time at reading it when singing. I usually sing soprano, high and low [I can hit pretty high notes when I want to].
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I can't read music either. At all. I memorize the words and my parts and everything else instead.:p


Oh and I'm an alto.;)
 
Wow, I admire all y'all! Linda, that would be so cool to go to Japan, I am praying you will get to go. The rest of you ladies, that's great you're so musical, too. I love to sing, but I have no skill at all!!! I go around humming and singing a lot throughout the day ... but I would not stand up in front of anyone and sing. Yikes!
 
It would be hard for me to pick my favorite choir experience, but here are two of my top ones. In 1992 I got to sing with an international choir on Red Square for [Orthodox] Easter! We all got our music ahead of time to learn, then we met up in Moscow for a week of rehearsals before performing in various venues before our big concert near the Kremlin. Something about singing about Jesus' resurrection in the the shadow of Lenin's tomb was just so inspiring. We also got to distribute Bibles in the subway which is another amazing story but I won't go into that here.

Another favorite choir experience was in the summer of 2010. My son, who was a high school junior, had written a grant to organize a multigenerational community choir for the summer to learn folk songs and oldies, then give performances at various senior centers and assisted living homes. It was such fun to be in a choir with my son leading (he took his responsibility very seriously and worked diligently with us on diction, pitch and balance), and although as accompanist I was behind the piano, I got to sing alto along with my daughter. My mom, who went to all our performances, would sit in the audience and during the sing-along times she would be very animated and had a great time singing the old familiar tunes with the other seniors. Even my husband participated taking photos. ... Such happy memories!
 
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I sing in our community choir every year, people from like five different churches or more sing in it. I'm soprano, first soprano and the director does usually let me hit the high notes that she only lets some people hit. I just went to my first practice this year, the highlights so far this year are O Worship the King, How Great is Our God and part of the Hallelujah Chorus.
 
i took women's choir in high school :)

i took women's choir in high school back in C.A., funnest class i've ever been in :) our group performed in a couple of places localy :)
 
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