Repost from the forbidden board
Sep. 14th, 2006 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
So today was my first choir rehearsal as a second soprano...
...the new range was so... liberating!
I was able to actually open up and let the sound come out nice and clear (i.e. not held back), the way I want it to. (It's difficult to do that when I'm always stuck in the middle-C octave.)
Today we worked on a song in Latin and one in Church Slavonic (which was nifty). There's also a song in my music folder that looks like it's in Ladino, and stuff in German.
I was initially a little afraid that I might end up with my seat next to the, erm, aspiring opera (or was it musical theatre?) singer in the first soprano section - she fits the stereotype to a tee - overly dramatic, diva-ish showing-off of her skills, extremely popular, and so on - but I didn't, so I'm thankful for that.
During warm-up exercises, baritones and basses are usually allowed to drop an octave once they feel uncomfortable going any higher; Bob explained that "altos don't get to do that because I don't want them to get too comfortable with low notes. I want them to get out of that narrow range."
So when some of the altos started to ask me why I was 'being a traitor' and going to the dark side, I told them that I was just doing what Bob said to do :P
...the new range was so... liberating!
I was able to actually open up and let the sound come out nice and clear (i.e. not held back), the way I want it to. (It's difficult to do that when I'm always stuck in the middle-C octave.)
Today we worked on a song in Latin and one in Church Slavonic (which was nifty). There's also a song in my music folder that looks like it's in Ladino, and stuff in German.
I was initially a little afraid that I might end up with my seat next to the, erm, aspiring opera (or was it musical theatre?) singer in the first soprano section - she fits the stereotype to a tee - overly dramatic, diva-ish showing-off of her skills, extremely popular, and so on - but I didn't, so I'm thankful for that.
During warm-up exercises, baritones and basses are usually allowed to drop an octave once they feel uncomfortable going any higher; Bob explained that "altos don't get to do that because I don't want them to get too comfortable with low notes. I want them to get out of that narrow range."
So when some of the altos started to ask me why I was 'being a traitor' and going to the dark side, I told them that I was just doing what Bob said to do :P
