Congratulations to Justin Sandoval for being named to the 7th-9th grade Region Choir this past Saturday in Midland. Justin placed in the Tenor 2 section. We're going back to Midland this Sautrday for the Region Concert. Jonathan Shouse will be performing witht the high school choir, and Justin will perform with 7th-9th grade Choir. I'm sure it will be a great concert!
While we were in Midland this past Saturday, Justin and Kandace had a contest to see who could eat more. They each ordered a two-pound burger at Michael's, and...well, let me just say, that Kandace may be slender but she sure can put it away. She ate most of the burger, and Justin brought most of it home.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Great concert!
Great job last night, Lake View Choirs! It was an excellent Fall Concert. Here are some pictures from last night.
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Monday, October 8, 2007
Congratulations, Jonathan!
Congratulations to Jonathan Shouse for being named to the TMEA Region 2 All-Region Choir! Jonathan placed 4th chair in the Bass 2 section during auditions held this past Saturday at Midland HS. He will now perform with the All-Region Choir on November 3rd at Midland Lee HS. He will also audition for Pre-Area on November 12 in Odessa. Way to go, Jonathan!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
The Young Person's Guide to the Chorus, part 4 of 4
Finally, the last entry!
THE BASSES sing the lowest of anybody. This basically explains everything. They are solid, dependable people, and have more facial hair than anybody else. The basses feel perpetually unappreciated, but they have a deep conviction that they are actually the most important part (a view endorsed by musicologists, but certainly not by sopranos or tenors), despite the fact that they have the most boring part of anybody and often sing the same note (or in endless fifths) for an entire page. They compensate for this by singing as loudly as they can get away with - most basses are tuba players at heart. Basses are the only section that can regularly complain about how low their part is, and they make horrible faces when trying to hit very low notes. Basses are charitable people, but their charity does not extend as far as the tenors, whom they consider effete poseurs. Basses hate tuning the tenors more than almost anything else. Basses like altos - except when they have duets and the altos get the good part. As for the sopranos, they are simply in an alternate universe which the basses don't understand at all. They can't imagine why anybody would ever want to sing that high and sound that bad when they make mistakes. When a bass makes a mistake, the other three parts will cover him, and he can continue on his merry way, knowing that sometime, somehow, he will end up at the root of the chord.
THE BASSES sing the lowest of anybody. This basically explains everything. They are solid, dependable people, and have more facial hair than anybody else. The basses feel perpetually unappreciated, but they have a deep conviction that they are actually the most important part (a view endorsed by musicologists, but certainly not by sopranos or tenors), despite the fact that they have the most boring part of anybody and often sing the same note (or in endless fifths) for an entire page. They compensate for this by singing as loudly as they can get away with - most basses are tuba players at heart. Basses are the only section that can regularly complain about how low their part is, and they make horrible faces when trying to hit very low notes. Basses are charitable people, but their charity does not extend as far as the tenors, whom they consider effete poseurs. Basses hate tuning the tenors more than almost anything else. Basses like altos - except when they have duets and the altos get the good part. As for the sopranos, they are simply in an alternate universe which the basses don't understand at all. They can't imagine why anybody would ever want to sing that high and sound that bad when they make mistakes. When a bass makes a mistake, the other three parts will cover him, and he can continue on his merry way, knowing that sometime, somehow, he will end up at the root of the chord.
Monday, October 1, 2007
The Young Person's Guide to the Chorus, part 3 of 4
THE TENORS are spoiled. That's all there is to it. For one thing, there are never enough of them, and choir directors would rather sell their souls than let a halfway decent tenor quit, while they're always ready to unload a few altos at half price. And then, for some reason, the few tenors there are are always really good - it's one of those annoying facts of life. So it's no wonder that tenors always get swollen heads - after all, who else can make sopranos swoon? The one thing that can make tenors insecure is the accusation (usually by the basses) that anyone singing that high couldn't possibly be a real man. In their usual perverse fashion, the tenors never acknowledge this, but just complain louder about the composer being a sadist and making them sing so high. Tenors have a love-hate relationship with the conductor, too, because the conductor is always telling them to sing louder because there are so few of them. No conductor in recorded history has ever asked for less tenor in a forte passage. Tenors feel threatened in some way by all the other sections - the sopranos because they can hit those incredibly high notes; the altos because they have no trouble singing the notes the tenors kill themselves for; and the basses because, although they can't sing anything above an E, they sing it loud enough to drown the tenors out. Of course, the tenors would rather die than admit any of this. It is a little-known fact that tenors move their eyebrows more than anyone else while singing.
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