Choir
I LOVE to sing! This has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. Music can make me laugh, cry, dance, sing or smile. A good song touches my soul and reminds me of who I am and what I want in my life. When I sing I feel peace and happiness, security and love. It makes me feel like I belong. Like I'm meant to be here. I love that my husband has put surround sound in our kitchen so that we can blast music and dance around the kitchen. This is our favourite family activity.
All through jr high and high school I sang in a fantastic girls choir. Our director was incredibly knowledgeable and she brought us to some amazing levels in our singing. When I was twelve, we went on tour across Canada, when I was sixteen, we traveled Europe. The lessons that I learned in those years were about more than music. I learned about culture, responsibility, friendship, being an ambassador. Much of who I am today is because of what I learned during that time.
When I graduated, I had to leave all that behind. I kept singing in different venues, ward choir, solos, etc, but I have always missed "my choir". So when I moved back home and heard that my director was thinking of starting an alumni choir, I could not have been more excited! I questioned her every time I saw her, I talked to all my choir friends about it (It's really like a sorority) and I waited. And waited.
Things kept coming up in my director's life that stopped her from putting together the choir we had been dreaming about. So this year, my best friend and I decided we were going to make it happen! We made phone calls, planned meetings, organized what we could and got the ball rolling. Then our director had to go in for surgery. On the night of our first official meeting. We were traumatized! No way could we put this off any longer! So we went ahead anyway. We held the meeting, made further plans, and started practices.
It all went amazingly well. When our director was feeling better, we were ready for her. She took the music that we had been working on, and in half an hour, took us from singing our notes, to really SINGING our music. It was an amazing transformation, our sound was fantastic and after a few weeks of practicing, we were ready for our first performance. The first one was kinda rocky, but we learned a lot from it and our second one was great!
I'm so excited to be really singing again! We had our "where do we go from here - what's our plan?" meeting last week, and I'm even more excited than I was before. We are really going to make something of this choir. And the best part is, there's no graduation from it! No "final year". We can keep going as long as we like! I'm thrilled!
okay, definitely not the most flattering picture, but it's all I've got! This was our first performance. We sang at the old folks home. My three year old took the picture.
All through jr high and high school I sang in a fantastic girls choir. Our director was incredibly knowledgeable and she brought us to some amazing levels in our singing. When I was twelve, we went on tour across Canada, when I was sixteen, we traveled Europe. The lessons that I learned in those years were about more than music. I learned about culture, responsibility, friendship, being an ambassador. Much of who I am today is because of what I learned during that time.
When I graduated, I had to leave all that behind. I kept singing in different venues, ward choir, solos, etc, but I have always missed "my choir". So when I moved back home and heard that my director was thinking of starting an alumni choir, I could not have been more excited! I questioned her every time I saw her, I talked to all my choir friends about it (It's really like a sorority) and I waited. And waited.
Things kept coming up in my director's life that stopped her from putting together the choir we had been dreaming about. So this year, my best friend and I decided we were going to make it happen! We made phone calls, planned meetings, organized what we could and got the ball rolling. Then our director had to go in for surgery. On the night of our first official meeting. We were traumatized! No way could we put this off any longer! So we went ahead anyway. We held the meeting, made further plans, and started practices.
It all went amazingly well. When our director was feeling better, we were ready for her. She took the music that we had been working on, and in half an hour, took us from singing our notes, to really SINGING our music. It was an amazing transformation, our sound was fantastic and after a few weeks of practicing, we were ready for our first performance. The first one was kinda rocky, but we learned a lot from it and our second one was great!
I'm so excited to be really singing again! We had our "where do we go from here - what's our plan?" meeting last week, and I'm even more excited than I was before. We are really going to make something of this choir. And the best part is, there's no graduation from it! No "final year". We can keep going as long as we like! I'm thrilled!
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