Celebrating Life - Choir
Yup! thats it!!! This is the day that we (all choir) going to do our best. Through out the weeks of practise, today! we all just gonna have fun and Praising God. I am just very curious about dress code, the ladies have their gorgeous outlook, black dress… but guys have to wear black pants and white shirt with black bow ties or tie. I can complain much but this make me look like a waiter. “Waiter, can I have a glass of water please…!”

Singing in the choir not for a first time. Remember two years ago when I started to join choir, which was Queensland 2000, where all of us just have fun in singing. No singing harmony or part that hard to sing. Then the second was the last year Christmas “Christmas in the Park”, we have a fun time together. This wasn’t hard because we have score to read and it is not hard to be a tenor. But when come to this Queensland 2002 and had female as our vocalist trainer. We (guys) felt so stress because she wants us to reach the very high pitch (its is not impossible for us to reach but it is very very high).

Through my music experience, usually female vocalist trainer tend to require tenor to sing very high compare to male vocalist trainer, he wants the ladies sing very high. This is not about bias or centred minded, but it is the nature of the person. The male and female voice range are different, so each of the trainer has different perspective and sometime choose to have opposite gender to have higher voice so that the music would be beautiful.

This is true. When we have practise yesterday, the music director, David Evans and the band were practised together with us. Our Vocalist trainer keep pushing us (guys) to high pitch, while David keep saying to us, “its ok, just sing an octave lower”. I felt much more relax after he said that. Anyway, this is my experience in Choir.