Choir

“Mid-Winter Concert” was special because it brought together choirs from all ages and experiences and put them into one big event. When the concert started, it was introduced by a young lady from Bonneville. After she was done, the Women’s Choir sang their songs, followed by the Intermediate and Men’s choir. In between the transitions from one choir to the next, were small group, duet and solo songs. After Men’s Choir, Bel Cantos and their Choir Clinic, which I was a part of, got up and sang…

There are many factors that contribute to an ensembles’ sound. Most of which we spend our musical lives practicing; things like tone, vowels, diction, ect. As we begin to make the transition from ensemble member to leader we are thrown yet another contributing factor to sound: conducting. The art of conducting is a continuously growing set of skills for an individual. Many of the greatest conductors have spent decades perfecting their craft and creating their style, while building their…

in Albuquerque I have been very active in my music community. I've been a violist in the UNM Symphony for two years, have participated in UNM's concert choir for one semester and intend on continuing that participation next semester. In addition to UNM ensembles, I have served as the alto section leader in the Albuquerque Institute of Religion Choir for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as well as the Chairman of the music committee for the Mountain View Ward of the same church.…

We filed onto the risers, our stage, and my choir director started talking to the choir, and then the other soloist in the choir and I sang for the night. As I and the other soloist made sure to frantically flip through the solos to attempt to make sure we remembered the lines, the red looming curtains opened. The distant stage lights were shining down upon me and the rest of my group of singers with hundreds of judging eyes of parents, friends, teachers, and other important people. The pressure…

Even so, the setting of Carnegie Hall couldn’t compare to the astonishment I felt when I sang there. In 2014, my concert choir was selected to be part of a 200 voice choir in a PERFORMING a Christmas concert at Carnegie Hall. We received our composition around a month before the December concert, and honestly, it didn’t seem to be anything special. We were part of a background choir after all. However, my judgment changed when I reached the day of the performance (performance day?). Something…

and apply it to our own approach to the piece. We also used the recordings to learn the song and correct our pitches. This obviously wouldn’t have been a possibility a hundred years ago, which shows that even timeless activities such as singing in a choir heavily rely on media and technology. During our lunch break, I realized the richness of face to face interactions that are not influenced by the…

beauty. I had only previously been in the choral hall directly across, and so it was certainly not what I was expecting. From the top of the raked audience, you could see a stage at floor level, framed by two short lighting trees, and dotted with choir risers. The greeters were genuinely friendly as I took my seat and settled in. About five minutes before the scheduled start time, President Schwartz walked in a sat directly in front of me. At first I assumed this kind of pressure would make me…

school choirs, orchestras, and bands numerous times in concerts and competitions. Shortly after I started piano lessons I joined my school 's orchestra and choir class. I chose to play viola and sang soprano in the choir. I loved my music classes, and always looked forward to the rehearsals and performances. For a while I have always known what I wanted to do. The idea popped into my mind when I was in middle school, and I have…

music, which are duration, pitch, timbre, and intensity. Duration consists of pulse, rhythm, meter, and note lengths. He gives good guidelines on what to do with short and long notes and how to handle dissonance. When talking about tempo, he says that choirs tend to drag the tempo when they are starting to learn notes, but it’s important for the conductor to keep the internal clock tempo. For pitch he talks about marking all dissonance areas and places where there could be note issues. For…

box to design new things and come up with better ideas. The STEM program has incredibly helped me with my communication skills and has put them to good use. The community activities I have done consist of me helping out with Confirmation, Ushering, Choir, Bible Study, lector, Toy Drive, office aid, and Dino Dash. Here are the description for these community service…