The choir thread

[Renille]

I remember a thread for band members...but I have never seen a CHOIR thread.

Is anyone in choir? I am. I'm a soprano in my school's concert choir...it's alot of fun. Choir gives me a chance to express my real feelings in a fun way. I'm usually viewed as the hyper little person, but that's not totally strange. Today, my whole choir went to the conference choral festival at my town's college. A very renowned conductor was our clinician and conductor. The day was a WONDERFUL experience. I wish I got to do a similar thing every day.

Any more choirheads out there?

[crickhollow]

I haven't been a part of an actual choir for a couple of years, but I'm an alto. I like to be able to sing the part that helps make the sopranoes sound good. I like to think of altoes as the chocolate cake, and sopranoes as the icing

[Starr Polish]

I love choir.

I do not, however, love my choir teacher. He has been a real jerk lately (but he is the type to be a jerk most of the time...incredibly stuck up "I'm better than everyone in this town" kind of person).

But I do love to sing. I'm a second soprano, but I can sing as high as a first and lower than several of our altos. I also sing OUT, which is why I'm a second instead of a first, since you can never hear the seconds (stupid freshmen singing first).

I kid around with my first soprano friends, calling them the "stupid singers" since they ALWAYS have the melody.

[Fred Baggins]

I am a sop. in my highschool choir. Finally a good school choir!! I was in the recent collage choir since I was eight, but recently left, because i was afraid that I would have to much to do. There is another more in depth answer but you have to understand me and my old director to understand. Anywho...I am compleatly dedicated to my music, and someday hope to be in "The Phantom of the Opera" Big goal i know but I can dream can't I?

[Aeryn]

I'm impressed with you opera/choir folks. I think I can hum without getting a tomatoed face, but I've heard choirs and the like and y'all really belt it out.

[IronParrot]

I kind of missed out on my high school choir, but that's because I was already so involved with symphonic and jazz bands, joining the choir would mean giving up the only late-afternoons I had left.

I was thinking of auditioning for being the choir accompanist too, but I didn't, and the girl who got it instead... well, she's quite amazing.

I wish my school had vocal jazz. Well, we didn't... oh well :(

[Aeryn]

Man, well, I don't have any talent at singing, don't have the depths of breath or something?
So I have been known to play cello, violin, and piano.
(that sounded really braggy, I am an amateur!)

[Starr Polish]

I love vocal jazz! It's amazing. I'm in our school's jazz choir, and I'm looking forward to the songs we're going to sing. They will be amazing!

[Tessar]

Well, I don't go to pup-school so I can't sing in one of THOSE. But I am in the church one. I'm in the bass section even though I have a bit of tenor clinging to my voice.

[Laurelyn]

I'm a soprano in the Middle School Choir, and B flat is currently my worst enemy.

'nuff said. I'm gonna go back to screeching until I hit the damn note! :mad: Never mind me . . . I can hit the A, but not the B flat. :(

I love singing tho.
Hey Fred Baggins: Phantom of the Opera rules!! We're singing Masquerade in choir right now . . . hence the B flat . . . and it's fun. I've always loved that show. Have you seen it live?

[Fred Baggins]

Laurelyn, That is sooo cool! Masquerade, is one of my favorites! I havn't seen it live though...I actually haven't seen it at all, unless you count about 2 minuets at my local mall with really((and I mean really)) bad actors/actresses. Ah well, I guess my goal is to see it live before I am in it. But then I am not sure if they would let me stay the whole time since I would be singing along with all the songs. Hehe, I have memorized the whole score! I have the CD and I listend to it so much that I was sick of it((yeah for about a day!)) Now I love it again! Anywho I could go on and on, so before I that happens I better go!

[Laurelyn]

I saw it live in Toronto 5 years ago. :)

[emplynx]

I'm a tenor in our Show Choir. We are pretty good this year. I hope to get a solo at the christmas concert

[IronParrot]

Ah, The Phantom of the Opera... my mother's favourite musical, and probably my favourite Lloyd Webber. I've seen it twice myself - once when I was eight (didn't really remember it well) and once again in London last August, in Her Majesty's Theatre wherein it originally opened. I love it.

[Fred Baggins]

*Throughs herself on the floor and has a tantrum* NOFAIRNOFAIRNOFAIRNOFAIR!!!!!! Everyone gets to see it but me!!! WAH!!!!!:( anywho I am done now...calm, collected, afterall you are talking((wirting?)) to one of the only people who having not seen it still nows the entire score, word for word, and movement for movment. Just calming myself down, soory if that sounded to much like bragging.

[Starr Polish]

Are we really happy with these silly games we play...looking for words to say Hehe..a song our 'varsity' jazz choir sang last year called Masquerade.

Ah, high b flat...yuuck...I've sung one though.

[sun-star]

I'm a soprano in our school choir - we've just started learning Christmas carols :D

[Finrod Felagund]

I'm a tenor in four choirs at my school. The 170 voice Bluevale singers, the chamer choir, the male chorus and A Shade of Blue (Sr. Jazz choir)

[Renille]

Heehee...B flat! That is possibly one of the most awful notes ever invented. I've been way past that note, but only in warmups with my old vocal coach. But at the choral festival I went to yesterday...eek! I would guess about 50 sopranos were trying to hit that note at the end of one of our songs, a gospel called "Ride on King Jesus" Let me tell you, it was NOT pretty. At the final concert I was so disconcerted that I forced myself down to the second sopranos at the G. That made me feel better. :p
I wish I was a second like last year...it was alot harder, but so much more interesting. And I was actually the minority. But I'd worked so much on my range and performance over the summer that it seemed a pity not to fly on to top notes!!

I've never seen "Phantom" either. I love the music...so haunting. Has anyone ever seen or heard the Broadway edition of "The Secret Garden?" I love that soundtrack...it is the best. I wish I could see a live performance. Wow...that would be my dream come true.

I get to go to Chicago with choir, band, and orchestra to see "The Lion King" on tour this summer!! :D I'm so happy.

[IronParrot]

"Are we really happy with these silly games we play...looking for words to say"
Yay, the Carpenters! :p

I play that song on the piano a fair bit... it's got great chords to improv over, and it takes a bossa nova beat really well.

[Rûdhaglarien]

I'm an alto. I love Mrs. Hine (my choir teacher) and I love to sing, so.... And, the musical that we're doing? Les Miserables. Yes.

[Laurelyn]

Heh . . . Guess what?
The B flat got axed! Bwahahaha . . .
My choir and teacher got sick of hearing Hannah and I screech it. Just as well . . . now we sing it down the octave w/ everybody else. Rather boring, but much more pleasant to sing and hear. :)
I can hit the B flat and above in warmups and what-have-you, but not real easily. That's another lousy thing about school choir - barely any warmup time. Were I warmed up properly, the whole Masquerade song up til the key change would be easy. Without warming up, I start screeching the G too. :( Hope I'm still let sing that one! I've taken to runnign my laps in gym and humming, "Do re mi fa so la ti do."
It scares people. Bwahahaha.
:D

[Fred Baggins]

Originally posted by Laurelyn
I've taken to runnign my laps in gym and humming, "Do re mi fa so la ti do."
It scares people. Bwahahaha.
:D
Humm, that is a good idea. I might try that. Mianly because I like scaring people...but that is beside the point.

[Starr Polish]

All-State tryouts are tomorrow! Wish me luck, I'll need it.

Remember how I said I have soprano I tendencies? I do, but my notes don't sound like a soprano I's. I can hit a G just fine, but it doesn't have the 'style' a true soprano I's would. In most of the songs I have to hit a G, and fairly early in the morning :(. At least not at eight o'clock like last year. I'm finally starting to get a more flowing sound though, but only today.

Also, jazz choir season starts soon! I'm so excited (I'm singing soprano I in it). We're doing a song called "Chili Con Carne". It sounds dumb, but go listen to it! It's great fun.

[Fred Baggins]

Good luck Starr Polish!
P.S. I LOVE your name!

[Laurelyn]

Hey, good luck, Starr Polish, if it isn't too late to say so. :D

I had a concert last night . . . sang Masquerade . . . had solo . . . freaked out . . . shook like a leaf in the wind . . . forgot words . . . :(
Apparently nobody noticed, though. I'll never be any good for live performances because I get really intense stage fright. Lousy . . . :mad: :(

[Fred Baggins]

Sorry that you didn't do so well:( If it makes you feel any better the first time I had a solo I forgot the words and it flet like I messed the whole song up, but no one noticed then either. And don't forget the moto of my old choir. If you mess up "We ment to do it that way!" :)

[Laurelyn]

Thank, Fred! :D
Errr . . . I . . . meant to do it that way?
Yeah, I did. Okay!

[Starr Polish]

When I forgot the words to a solo in fifth grade I almost started crying, but no one in the audience noticed :)

I didn't make All-State. I'm a little angry about that too. I walked into the audition with my parnter (I was only in a duet), and I was singing the best I had ever sung in my life. Then, we come to the last song, and my partner really screwed it up. Grr...for some reason, though she knew I was a second soprano, she thought I was a first one and freaked out when she thought I hadn't come in, so SHE didn't come in, and completely ruined the audition. Next year, next year.

Three people from our school did make it though, and I'm very glad for them :)