Choir Rehearsal
- art scotland
I joined a choir, and so far it has been very enjoyable. I like to sing, and singing a great arrangement in different parts sounds so nice. I’m actually surprised how well we sound, I expected much less. As we were founded only three weeks ago, there is no established culture yet, most people don’t know each other, the repertoire is very open, and so is the purpose. We have been about 30 people each week, enough sopranos, many altos, a couple of tenors and basses. Since people are allowed to drop in anytime, numbers and proportions are dynamic.
The first two weeks we worked on a King’s Singers arrangement of Billy Joel’s “And so it goes”. In the third week we started on a Beatles medley, and while I do like the Beatles and enjoyed singing this particular arrangement, I hatehatehate medleys. Why would anyone do that to music? Chop the songs into fragments and put them together into one Frankenstein’s monster?
So, the topic repertoire came up and people kept suggesting popular music and enough medleys to make me cringe. When an Abba medley was suggested I had to interfere and asked for classical choral music. A murmur went through the room, people raised their eyebrows, and someone jokingly suggested the “Messiah”. People weren’t mean about it - in fact, it was quite funny, but my idea seemed controversial. Looks like I’m in the wrong choir, but then it will do for me for now.
The first two weeks we worked on a King’s Singers arrangement of Billy Joel’s “And so it goes”. In the third week we started on a Beatles medley, and while I do like the Beatles and enjoyed singing this particular arrangement, I hatehatehate medleys. Why would anyone do that to music? Chop the songs into fragments and put them together into one Frankenstein’s monster?
So, the topic repertoire came up and people kept suggesting popular music and enough medleys to make me cringe. When an Abba medley was suggested I had to interfere and asked for classical choral music. A murmur went through the room, people raised their eyebrows, and someone jokingly suggested the “Messiah”. People weren’t mean about it - in fact, it was quite funny, but my idea seemed controversial. Looks like I’m in the wrong choir, but then it will do for me for now.