Thursday, July 22, 2004
singing!
Today, I am excited because I was accepted into the very good choir at my church. It is an audition-only choir, in a big downtown church, and the choir director took me!
OK, I'll confess, I've sung in choirs before. I have a good voice. I can almost sight-read. But it's been five years since I've sung in a choir, I've never taken any sort of professional voice lesson, and I think my higher register sounds bad.
About that last—the choir master disagreed. Apparently, I've been hiding, pretending to be an alto, while this big soprano voice struggled to be free. Apparently. I'm not sure I agree 100%, but I do know that it feels good to know I'll be singing again. It gives me something else to think about besides work and applying to law school, and I like being involved in my church.
OK, I'll confess, I've sung in choirs before. I have a good voice. I can almost sight-read. But it's been five years since I've sung in a choir, I've never taken any sort of professional voice lesson, and I think my higher register sounds bad.
About that last—the choir master disagreed. Apparently, I've been hiding, pretending to be an alto, while this big soprano voice struggled to be free. Apparently. I'm not sure I agree 100%, but I do know that it feels good to know I'll be singing again. It gives me something else to think about besides work and applying to law school, and I like being involved in my church.
