Chamber Choir is one of the most vocally selective groups we have here at Kennedy High School. Every year Chamber Choir is asked to sing carols at different events. The most common one are the rotary club meetings that take place in the downtown area. This year we were also asked to sing at a church while people came and prayed for a while and then we would come out and sing for whoever wanted to stay and listen. Our first “gig” this year was at a rotary club meeting that took place at the Masonic Temple. The whole time I was in there I felt like I should be very careful about not breaking anything. It seemed like that place was hundreds of years old. It even smelled like it!
When is was finally time for us to sing our carols for all of the rotary club members, we walked out and immediately started singing a song called Sing We Now of Christmas. After that our director, Mr. Ziegler, talked a little bit about the songs we’ll be singing and made a cute little joke and off we were again. The whole experience was pretty good and I felt we performed the song well. I wish I could say that for all three of the performances we did. It all seemed to go downhill from there.
I wasn’t able to make it to the performance at the church, but people told me it wasn’t the best. When we went to the Crowned Plaza Hotel downtown to sing carols for more rotary club members, the whole bass section forgot their music except for one. So some tenors, being nice, held their music up high so the basses could look off their words. It was kind of a disaster. It was mainly the basses, but the basses are the foundation for all music. You need that low tone or it sounds weird. It was a bad time to forget your music because we really wanted to impress all of these people because they paid us $300 to sing for them. Mr. Z seemed pretty tense about it already because of the money they paid us. I hope despite our poor performance they invite us back next year because we could really use that money for the Choral League!
When is was finally time for us to sing our carols for all of the rotary club members, we walked out and immediately started singing a song called Sing We Now of Christmas. After that our director, Mr. Ziegler, talked a little bit about the songs we’ll be singing and made a cute little joke and off we were again. The whole experience was pretty good and I felt we performed the song well. I wish I could say that for all three of the performances we did. It all seemed to go downhill from there.
I wasn’t able to make it to the performance at the church, but people told me it wasn’t the best. When we went to the Crowned Plaza Hotel downtown to sing carols for more rotary club members, the whole bass section forgot their music except for one. So some tenors, being nice, held their music up high so the basses could look off their words. It was kind of a disaster. It was mainly the basses, but the basses are the foundation for all music. You need that low tone or it sounds weird. It was a bad time to forget your music because we really wanted to impress all of these people because they paid us $300 to sing for them. Mr. Z seemed pretty tense about it already because of the money they paid us. I hope despite our poor performance they invite us back next year because we could really use that money for the Choral League!
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