Choir Essays

Usually I’m not upset to go to choir everyday, but this year has been one of the worst choirs I’ve ever been in. The past two years of choir was the best choirs we’ve ever had. First off I’m going to start by saying Ms. Kruth does not try to enhance our singing voices at all. This past fall concert we did on October 3rd, 2016 honestly a mess and very unprofessional. She did not fully prepare us for this concert we did. The first few days of school usually we jumped right into knowing each other and

Jack is the leader of a choir that was on the plane. He is very serious and commanding. He is tall, skinny, freckled, and he has red hair and blue eyes. He wants to be chief, so when he is not chosen, he is mortified. While exploring, they come across a trapped pig. Jack could easily kill it, but he doesn't. “Next time there would be no mercy. He looked around fiercely, daring them to contradict”(31). Jack wants to be the chief, and he will do anything to try to be the chief. Even when a boy describes

voice as my family members would say. Yes, yes indeed I had stage fright. I was a thirteen year old seventh grader going to Burton Middle School. I absolutely have a love for music, but I somewhat couldn’t express that publicly. That is why I chose choir as an elective, to see if the class can get me out my comfort zone and for the start of it….it was not going at all well. I was still somewhat the shy type. Apparently, my mom had a discussion with my choral director about me. That’s when everything

curriculum, some school have two choirs, one auditioned and the other volunteer. Teachers should pay attention to the feeders schools, whose students are more likely to continue choir. There are several high school choirs that students can participate in either by audition or a choir of their choice. Some of the most common choirs are concert choir, chamber singers, a mixed choir, and choral union. Other include a mixture, such as a men’s and women’s choir, show choirs, small groups, such as trios,

Immaculate Heart of Mary church, the Asap gospel choir arose and prepared to sing. The fairly new choir stood in their rich purple t shirts which read, “Always Singing and Praising” and simultaneously let out the first of many musical notes that would fill the church with a pleasant sound of praise. Amidst their singing one could hear the beautiful resonance of a Grand piano, the rhythmic strum of a guitar, and the tuneful beat of a drum. The somewhat small choir seemed to exude confidence and managed to

Wichita State School of Music The Wichita State choirs not only sang correct rhythms and pitches, but they conveyed a story, a message, and impacted the crowd. Just as Hans Christian Anderson said, “Where words fail, music speaks,” the WSU choir delivered on October 8th in Wiedemann Hall at 7:30. Wiedemann Hall is truly a room built for music, because of the fact that it is acoustically sound which can be noticeably heard. WSU has two choirs: A Cappella Choir—conducted by Dr. Tom Wine—and Concert Chorale—directed

The word “choir” comes from the Greek χορός, khoros in Latin – a group of performers dancing, acting, singing and commenting in unison the actions of plays in theatre. Its function was to give background information and insights to the audience, often suggesting them how to react to the plot on stage and impersonating an anonymous mass (which was in sharp contrast with the heroic protagonists of the Greek tragedy). Accordingly, the voice of this form of choir was non-individualized and homogeneous

Personal Statement 2) Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem-solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side. Because of the bedtime stories my dad would read my siblings and me, the love for books and the scenes the authors could create began to feed my imagination. Nonetheless, my creative side actually emerged in Seventh Grade English/Creative Writing class. This one assignment impacted

Christ Lutheran choir has produced over the years. The choir works very hard each year to present a show that the school will enjoy, but the choir should not be the one performing the shows. CLS would benefit from having a drama class that is separate from the choir class. Many people have said that they would like to take part in the school productions, but they are not interested in joining choir. Because of this, a new drama class could reduce the amount of students that join choir. In response,

In William Golding's, Lord of the Flies, a group of power hungry boys struggle to hold together their own society while maintaining their own ideas and values, that will soon be stripped away. As the boys began to plunge deeper into the isolation of the lone island, the boys soon realize this is no longer a waltz. Soon leadership, ideals, morals, and their own sense of right and wrong will be put to the most extreme test. Who will they be when the density of the petrifying environment gets to them

How has the Classical tradition (the art of Greece and Rome) continued to affect art through the 1700s? The Greek and the Roman culture perfectly understood the combination of philosophy, arts, and literature to create a sense of overwhelming feelings and admirations on ancient cultures. Even though these two civilizations no longer have the preeminence, yet many years later, the world continues to remember their accomplishment in the world of art. One element that would not be forgotten about the

1. D. Scarlatti (1685 – 1757) Sonata in G Minor K.426 Sonata in G Major K.427 The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti, son of equally renowned composer Allesandro, wrote 555 sonatas for keyboard (mostly for harpsichord or fortepiano) during his lifetime. The letter K. before the number of the work stands for Ralph Kirkpatrick who produced a chronological edition of the sonatas in 1953. All of Scarlatti’s sonatas are single movement works, mostly in binary form, and these two sonatas

During July 19-22 of 2012, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. It was a very hot day about 90 degrees. We were like in a middle of a hay field. I was with my best friends. There were trucks everywhere and a lot of adults and younger people drinking and dancing to country music. There were a lot of police there too. This was Country Thunder. Country Thunder is a very big music Fest for country music and it's about the same week as Country USA. I had a 4-day pass and I can see all the people who were singing

"Math Autobiography" The importance of Math has been emphasized over and over by countless people. Although I am aware of its importance, I have never allowed myself to see the importance of it. Math, however, as I know, is a very important subject. It is a prerequisite for almost every area of life. This essay presents an overview of my personal experiences with Math, both positively and negatively, along with my overall attitude towards the subject and lastly, it will share how confident I am with

In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding unknowingly uses Simon, Piggy, Ralph, and Jack to illustrate id, ego, and superego. The id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego. Golding shows the id, ego, and superego with Jack being the id, Ralph being the ego, and Piggy as the superego. Firstly, Jack represents id within the allegory

Ms. Lacy was a music and chorus teacher at John J. Wright and Spotsylvania Middle Schools where I had the pleasure of being one of her students from 1981 to 1985 when I attended her sixth grade music class and subsequently joined chorus during my seventh grade year. Dr. Likona assets, “The school has to build on the work the family does” in the area of character education. (Lyon, Raising Good Children – Character Education Talk in Singapore 1 [Video file], 2009) Ms. Lacy exemplified Dr. Likona’s

Concert Report: University of Utah Chamber Choir 4/26/16 The first piece of the evening was “Versa est in Luctum” by Tomás Luis de Victoria.. Throughout the piece, the University of Utah Chamber Choir: did a nice job of creating nice gentle crescendos. This was created by the connection the choir and their conductor created with each other. This connection allowed them to not only seamlessly change in dynamics, but to also create beautiful emotion which accurately portrayed the mournful nature

When people think of artists, specifically choir, they think of talent, creativity, and cooperation. When people think of athletes, in particular, football, they think of strength, manliness, and endurance. Football and choir seem like they are as different as night and day. First of all, they are executed in completely different ways. Choir requires singing, reading music, memorizing pieces of music, and learning harmonies. Football includes learning a specific play, scoring points, running the

Shannon Swonger English 9 18 May 2023 Is Show Choir truly a sport? Exploring the physical and mental demands of this competitive activity. For those who don’t know, Show Choir is a very difficult art that gets a lot of hate for no reason. If you would take time to notice Show Choir and other sports are very similar. We will also go into the pros and cons of doing Show Choir to show how difficult art is. The similarities between sports and Show Choir are very close the more you look into it. Because

Eysenck’s Five Factor Model of Personality. These theories examine factors that help build and shape our identity internally and externally. To validate theories, I will be examining Martin Luther’s classic identity crisis from the article Fit in the Choir. A common question high school students get during their graduation year is ‘what are you going to major in?’ and most students will not know. Erikson’s and Marcia’s theory both support this common theme. However, I found that Marcia was more realistic