Wow. Nashville's version of Community Choir is actually really good. Deep in my heart, I feared a repeat of that terrible Exeter chorus experience, but this is much more like Kenyon's CC. In fact, most of the people in it are better-trained than the majority of people in CC, which is amazing. It's like CC was freshman year, before everyone discovered they could use it as an easy way to get their Fine Arts requirement, or possibly even better. Somewhere between that and Chamber Singers. (It's closer in numbers to CS, at any rate. There are only about 50-60 people.) The room we're in actually has excellent acoustics, particularly for a high school music room done in Late Concrete Block, so that may be helping. (Speaking of that room, OMG, the chairs. You remember those horrible metal-and-hard-multicolored-plastic chairs from your school days? Yeah. Three hours in them. Ow.)
I've suddenly become a Second Soprano, which will be...not different at all, since Beethoven's Mass in C-major is in four-part harmony all the way through. *g* The director wants to do Vivaldi's Gloria as well (all before December), so maybe I'll be in for a shock there.
The director is actually fairly similar in temperment to Doc, and she obviously knows what she's doing. She does have a few quirks, though, chief among them being that she conducts every note as if it has an accent (>) over it, which is...different. Particularly after Lux Aeterna with Doc.
Actually, no, the quirkiest thing is that she doesn't, so far, seem to believe in warm-ups. We did all of two minutes of warming up and concentrated on six notes in roughly the middle of my range, which was less than helpful. But other than those two things, she is excellent. I can see why everyone respects her so much.
We're also apparently going to have sectional rehearsals once a week at a location of the section leader's choosing. (Pleaseohplease let my leader not live across town.) Yeah, this is definitely going to be more work than CC, but we're almost certainly going to sound better as well. I'm very pleasantly surprised.
I've suddenly become a Second Soprano, which will be...not different at all, since Beethoven's Mass in C-major is in four-part harmony all the way through. *g* The director wants to do Vivaldi's Gloria as well (all before December), so maybe I'll be in for a shock there.
The director is actually fairly similar in temperment to Doc, and she obviously knows what she's doing. She does have a few quirks, though, chief among them being that she conducts every note as if it has an accent (>) over it, which is...different. Particularly after Lux Aeterna with Doc.
Actually, no, the quirkiest thing is that she doesn't, so far, seem to believe in warm-ups. We did all of two minutes of warming up and concentrated on six notes in roughly the middle of my range, which was less than helpful. But other than those two things, she is excellent. I can see why everyone respects her so much.
We're also apparently going to have sectional rehearsals once a week at a location of the section leader's choosing. (Pleaseohplease let my leader not live across town.) Yeah, this is definitely going to be more work than CC, but we're almost certainly going to sound better as well. I'm very pleasantly surprised.
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