I enrolled in chorus class at the end of 8th grade thinking that it was just going to be a boring music class that was required to graduate. I haven’t been in a chorus class since I was in 3rd grade. By the end it was one of the most enjoyable class i’ve taken this year. It was a happy environment where you can be yourself, and have fun. I took a lot of things away from this course, and made a lot of memories.
At the end of the course we had to perform in two concerts at a local church. A couple weeks in advance we would go to the church during chorus class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I really enjoyed taking the bus and getting to leave the school for about a hour. The first day we went to the church I was kind of emotional because my family and I just held my grandmother 's funeral service there about a week before. We
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The night where we would all have to sing in front of 100s of people. I don’t like anyone could ever prepare you for what it was like to sing and stand in front of so many people. We were the last group to go up and sing. I felt a huge pressure because all of the honor and advanced groups sung before us. I remember the moment when we first stood up from the pues and took our first steps onto the stage. My row was the first to walk up, so that was a little nerve racking. When I heard the piano play our first song, my least favorite, was when I really felt the pressure. When I sung my first words and realized that everyone else was singing it wasn’t bad at all, I kind of enjoyed it. The other 3 songs were some of my favorites, so I enjoyed singing them. The last song gave me goosebumps once I heard everyone singing. This was the song that every chorus group all stood together and sung. This was the only song that I didn’t have fully memorized. When I got on stage it all came back to me. The second concert was about just the same just a little boring because I’ve already seen the concert a couple days
It was the first time that I was happy to see unfamiliar faces because that meant that no one knew who I was; I could be anyone that I wanted to be. I could be myself. I found a new group of friends where instead of hiding my race, I embraced it. I wasn’t afraid of singing to Latin pop with the window’s down as I was driving around with my friends. I wasn’t afraid of what my friend’s were going to think when they noticed that my parents have an accent.
I was relieved second semester when other kids transferred over into chorus, growing our chorus slightly. At the end of the year, we had learned that the chorus was trying to put a group together to go to Disney World at Christmas to sing in the Candle Light Processional at Epcot, so when it came time for school to start again in August, the room was full of new people. Once again we could divide our guy section into tenor and bass and divide the girls into Alto, Soprano II and Soprano I. After sending in an audition video, our chorus was selection to join the mass choir for two performances and to prepare, we learned 15 songs. My junior year, I transferred voice teachers because my old voice teacher was moving away.
Carrie Underwood may be an amazing country singer and now she is speaking out about her time on American Idol. Underwood got her start on the show, but she is admitting that it was actually a very scary situation for her. Carrie is a girl from a small town in Oklahoma and this was a huge change for her. Yahoo actually shared what Carrie Underwood had to say about it all and how it was "horrifying" to her dealing with all of it. Carrie spoke out to Parade Magazine recently about the show that changed her life.
I took music classes my first semester at Stanly. I took music appreciation and introduction to jazz. The music classes in my opinion were wonderful, I learned a lot about different composers. I began to share with Elijah about my experience in a online class with other students that had the same interest in music just like I did. It was rewarding watching his eyes glow as I told him about all the different songs that I learned
Marching band was fun I was very sceptical about getting all my music memorized but Ms.Snider made it very easy and kept encouraging me to get it done, along with the other members in my saxophone group. I had watched the marching band as a kid and I never thought that it was as hard as it really is. Getting all the steps and starting on your left food is very important when staying in step and getting a good rating at contest. My friends and I got even closer, and I made a lot more friends.
Those days were always the best three weeks I 've had in my life just because I 've always wanted to be a dancer and the fact that I was able to even perform at MY party was amazing, and we always practiced for three hours, so you really know that we couldn’t mess up. Of course, we would take our little breaks in between our rehearsal, honestly what got a lot better was that I was able to dance to my favorite singer, her name is Jennifer Lopez, I 've always wanted to be like her growing up, she also dances and I let my teacher know about that and we watched her video to the song that I was going to dance too and we added a lot of her dance moves into my routine and I literally felt like I was dancing just like her. It got even better, the whole idea of it being it a surprise dance is that no one of my family member 's or anyone I knew was able to go in there with me because it would defeat the whole purpose of it being a surprise.
Why are you interested in the scholarship role(s) to which you have applied? SR In applying for Senior Resident I see an opportunity to shape the Ursula Hall Community towards the engagement of a wide range of residents. Every resident who comes to Ursula Hall, ultimately will want a different experience out of their time. In wanting to help build a greater sense of community around the events which Senior Residents run along with being able to help both new residents transition into university life and help returning residents with the troubles which can occur through later years.
At the end of the year for auditions, I decided to try out for Symphonic band, the top band in our school. Because I was in one of the last bands, a lot of people told me this would be very difficult to do. When the results came in I found out I had made symphonic. I was very proud of myself with how much I had improved within just a year. I even got the Academic Excellence for Concert 2 band award at the end of the 2013-2014 school year.
For this particular song, we were able to get out of the stands and walk around the entire auditorium while singing in harmony to entertain our families. To my recollection, there were a lot of laughs and even though my mom, a non-English speaker, could not understand what the song says, she enjoyed the performance and the song itself a lot too. I remember her trying her best to playfully sing the song to me after we got home because that’s how much she loved it and she said it was very catchy. Now that I know more about music and
The emergence of the musical canon in the 19th century created a Gordian Knot for composers at the time. Composers were expected to proclaim a distinctive personal style while also creating music that was like that of the traditional masters (Lecture, 2/1). This expectation conservatism while simultaneously being distinctive can about as a result of the "musical museum" or the musical canon, a list of works that are considered to be permanently established as being the highest quality (Lecture, 1/30). The emergence of the musical cannon was supported by the rise concert culture which led to a priority shift in concerts and the creation of music. Furthermore, the canon created a set of rigid boundaries to be followed by aspiring composers resulting
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Introduction Roger’s and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is arguably one of the most well known films that many can admit to watching at least once in their lifetime. People all around the world have found this musical inspiring, as it documents growth and hope amidst the horrors of World War II. This incredibly well written film is based on the story of the Von Trapp family who escaped Austria when the Nazis invaded it during the war. Part of what made this movie so interesting on so many different accounts was the music that accompanied the vivid and exciting scenes. Without music, many could agree that our world would be a sad, quiet, dull and depressing place.
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From “Cola” to “National Anthem” the concert came to an end. It was an amazing experience that could never be explained through writing but only by experience. As I was looked around the pit looking at all the faces of the fans like little kids watching fireworks at DisneyLand. I realized that listing to music with a bunch of strangers that share one thing in common is one of the most exciting and inspiring things there is to
I was going to the Imagine Dragons concert in Ohio. It took a 3 hour drive there, but it was going to be worth it. We had just got there and we decided to get lunch. We went to a sports bar. Later once we finished we went to the concert.