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I joined the choir this year. (I was in it last year, too, but that only went till 7th grade.) This was my first day and I got put into Alto. I can sing high but I think I'm better in low stuff. For our next concert we're going to sing Gloria by Vivaldi. It's so beautiful! Are any of you in a choir? Which songs are you singing?
submitted by Elizabeth M., age 13, Germany
(October 10, 2012 - 9:41 am)
(October 10, 2012 - 9:41 am)
I'm in chorus at my school, which is like our school choir. Most people in chorus have it every single day, but since I'm in band it alternates between band and chorus. I don't like chorus as much as I do band because of the people in the class. The singing part of it, I love. We're singing an arrangement of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. I'm an alto. My voice doesn't like high notes.:3
"Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. . . ."
Some friends and I once slept out in the woods behind Robert Frost's house in the Green Mountains of Vermont. He was already deceased and someone else was living there at the time. We went to the door and asked permission. I remember evergreens and pine needles.
Admin from Robert Frost
(October 11, 2012 - 4:32 pm)
Oops! Sorry! I meant chorus. I couldn't think of the word so I wrote choir. :D
(October 12, 2012 - 12:02 am)
I am in chorus as an "alto", but most of it I sing down an octave. But my chorus teacher refuses to make a tenor section. Nyarsh. Anyway, we're sing "Cold and Fugue Season", which is a kid complaining about a cold set to one of Bach's fugues.
"We just want to sing this classy fugue for you. But I just keep sneezing and sneezing. And my partner's coughing and wheezing and I don't think Bach wrote sneezes in this fugue. I don't think we'll ever make it through this fugue without kleenex, cough drop and Nyquil, hot tea and heat pad and Vicks and a doctor bill" and anyway I think it's much too long.
Et cetera, et cetera and so forth! (and other declarative phrases)
(October 13, 2012 - 7:03 am)
I sang that for a Christmas concert in a homeschool choir a few years ago!
"Mom please take me home, put me to bed...I have this cold, my aching head...I should have stayed home like you said...here I am instead." That was my favorite part :)
(October 22, 2012 - 12:27 pm)
I don't want (I don't want) to sing this classy fugue for you. Cause we keep on sneezing and sneezing and my partner's coughing and wheezing and I don't think Bach wrote sneezes in this fuuuuuuugue. ACHOO!
(October 22, 2012 - 3:40 pm)
I am in my school's Select Singers Program. We have not had a meeting yet but we are Friday.
(October 13, 2012 - 4:58 pm)
I sing in our church's polyphony choir. We sing mainly stuff like Palestrina, de Victoria, etc. Very beautiful. We sing mainly at Mass, but a couple of weeks ago we met at one of the choir members' house and sang medieval English madrigals. Which you would definitely not sing at Mass.
The age range- at fourteen, I'm the youngest, and the oldest is perhaps around fifty. All women, though the men from a separate men's choir often join us to sing the lower parts. Our director is thirty years old and engaged to be married.
(October 17, 2012 - 12:28 pm)
I think I'm going to try out for the jazz band at school. I don't know if I'm good enough but a friend of mine is doing it and she'd really like me to join. I think I'm going to sing Mama Do by Pixie Lott but I can't seem to find the sheet music anywhere... :/
(October 19, 2012 - 6:56 am)
See if you can find the sheet music online. If you can't, find the lyrics and listen to the song on youtube. That is last resort, though.
(October 19, 2012 - 3:58 pm)
I'm in my school's jazz band, but on saxophone. I don't sing.
Thankfully.
(October 21, 2012 - 11:50 am)
Boys singing is actually prettier than girls singing, if they actually learn how to use their voice. Just saying. But, since I'm assuming you don't do all that voice training, it is probably good that you are on saxophone.
(October 21, 2012 - 5:13 pm)
I played my clarinet in the jazz band in my old school. This year, I didn't audition because I didn't think I would make it, being a freshman and all. There aren't any clarinets in it this year, so I should have tried out.:( There are no singers in either of the jazz bands, though.
(October 22, 2012 - 2:50 pm)
I've changed my song choice for my audition. Mama Do just didn't seem to fit. Now I'm going to sing People help the People by Birdy. :)
(October 23, 2012 - 1:15 pm)
People Help the People= best song. Ever.
(October 24, 2012 - 12:30 pm)
@Mattie- I SO agree with you.
I had my audition today and the music teacher said that I sing really well and stuff but that he already has a singer but I could sing backround so that's what I'm going to do. Plus I'm not really for the solo stuff yet. I was shaking like crazy. :)
(October 25, 2012 - 8:46 am)