Choir

Saxophonist Odean Pope delighted the audience with fabulous arrangements of acknowledged tunes with his expansive Saxophone Choir. The sparkling harmonic sequences led to soulful approaches and the balance between the improvised and the arranged was awesome. They kicked in with “To the Roach”, a piece dedicated to the drummer Max Roach, and proceeded with bubbling sax improvisations on “Coltrane Time”, Pope’s ballad “Cis” and an Afro-Latin piece packed with baritone fills whose title I couldn’t…

On October 4th, 2016 I observed the Intermezzo Choir at the Community School of Music and Arts in Ithaca. Sarah Linfors is the conductor and music educator for that group. Sarah also has a rehearsal accompanist and two student interns, Sarah and Daniel Block. The choir is made up of students 9-13 years old. The room where rehearsals are held is a big open room that looks like an old church space. Chairs were set up for students in straight rows and a name tag was placed on each seat. The piano…

Choirs Impact Choir is a big influence in a lot of people's lives. Choir has helped me in lots of aspects such as my attitude,focus and intellectual vitality.These are some of the most important things that one needs throughout life. Choir has influenced my in Focusing, my attitude, and intellectual vitality. Firstly one of the things that is important is attitude because having a good attitude with people will help you later in live. Choir has helped improve my mood since i started. Such as…

Show Choir will be auditioning for next seasons line up in the choir room on May 8th. Sophomore Asia Brewer is one of the people that plan on auditioning for Show Choir next year. Brewer was in show choir last year. She really enjoyed it that is why she trying again this year. “The auditions are not hard because you are doing what you know,” said Brewer. They usually take up 60 people after audition, but a lot will people quit. After someone quits they get replaced by the next person in line.…

success, the times I have failed make a prodigious impression on me. I am a choir kid. I love singing and choreography and making music. So it made sense that I wanted to try out for show choir in sixth grade, along with about eighty percent of my choir class. For this choir audition you had to learn a song and a corresponding dance in three short practices and then perform it with three other applicants in front of the choir teachers. The song was “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi, which I…

music. Before joining the JBHS choir I didn’t have a true passion. This choir program has helped me to realize it is music and singing. Although the main choir program is important to me, the jazz and chamber choirs are what sparked my interest. Jazz has always been one of my favorite genres of music and the people in this choir are great and it’s like a family. Jazz choir makes it fun to sing songs about chili or to count by fives for a jazz concert. Chamber is choir that reminds me…

At the Rex Jazz and Blues Bar on 194 Queen Street West, The Sinners Choir performed in the genre of Americana, Free Jazz to an audience of around twenty-five people. Free Jazz was first introduced in the summer of 1960 when Saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his band recorded This is Our Music for Atlantic records. In the album, “Coleman reordered structural principles to offer the members of his group maximum melodic and rhythmic freedom,” (Anderson 2007, 1). He accomplished an improvised approach…

honestly this one is the greatest. Last year I was in choir a couple weeks into school my choir teacher told the class about Honor Choir. I wasn’t really certain at first but at the end of the week i was. I wanted to join Honor Choir. I had to audition for Honor Choir and I was really nervous. When I auditioned I volunteered to go first because everyone was scared to and i wanted to go ahead and get this done first. I messed up so the choir teacher let me go again after everyone. After the…

me in many ways. I plan to become a choir director, which means that I will be using music every day to inspire students. I also intend to continue my guitar lessons business. I Teach guitar at a local music store. This has been advantageous to me because it allows me to learn about teaching through the instruction that I give my students. Music will always be a very significant part of my life, just as it has always been. My educational goal is to become a choir director. Doing this would…

felt like millions of seconds between me and an audition room that would decide my fate. Since the beginning of freshman year, girls would dream about the day they would have the opportunity to sing as a member of the most elite choir at Wayzata High School: Concert Choir. From ten minute Mozart masses to twelve part harmonies, there was not a single student who didn't salivate over the perfect chords and the unblemished sounds that resulted from such an immaculate ensemble. The days kept…