Singing? I like Singing!!

Choir students are nuts! They spend hours practicing things like breathing, making strange faces, and creating bizarre noises.

When school begins in September, they fill their time with singing, singing, and more sining. They work in and out of school to prepare music for the upcoming performances. The fury picks up in November with the start of "choir season". Festivals start and the choir student's conversation changes from English into Choralese. To those who are not fluent, the dialogue is nearly unintelligble.

"I'm having a bit of trouble transitioning from the modulation back into the coda in that piece. That part is so high that I have to go into my whistle register!!"

"It's actually pretty easy if you just try solfeging it. The first interval is just a perfect fourth. Just create a nobler vowel and push more air and you'll be able to switch into your upper register with better vocal agility."

In the spring, they all congregate for choir festivals to sing, talk about singing, and learn how to sing better. It is absolutely exhausting.

Choir activities take up approximately 7 hours of my life each week. I find that pieces from Haydyn or Ralph Vaughn Williams get stuck in my head all the time. I even have dreams about singing. But, I am a a choir student through and through...it is a fantastic adventure.

Singing? I like singing!

These ten outstanding choral students just participated in the Region III choir festival.
Five of them have advanced to States!