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Oct. 24th, 2011 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goldvermilion87So, one class out of my potpourri of classes is High School choir. Because of the truly terrible conductor we'd had for about 10 years, I didn't get very many kids, but I have 13. This is actually a beautiful number for a capella singing.
Anyway, we have well-learned (though we've yet to perfect) William Billings' gorgeous piece, "Shiloh," and we are now starting on Tchesnokov's Spaseniye Sodelal. I am confident that my students can learn it, but it will take a little bit of sectional rehearsal time. In my 60 student high school, that means lunch time. Well, I asked, and not only did the basses say "sure, that would be great, because then we can really work together in class instead of wasting time on learning our parts" [inside I was saying YES! YOU GET IT! CHOIR IS FOR BLENDING NOT FOR LEARNING PARTS THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] and then, they ate really quickly, and we got SO MUCH DONE and also I found out from something one of the basses said, that two of them practice together every single Wednesday at lunch. I mean, I require that they practice a certain number of times each week (though I am not really checking up on them) but it makes me so excited that they're practicing as a team.
:-D :-D :-D :-D
Have I ever mentioned that...
I LOVE TEACHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, we have well-learned (though we've yet to perfect) William Billings' gorgeous piece, "Shiloh," and we are now starting on Tchesnokov's Spaseniye Sodelal. I am confident that my students can learn it, but it will take a little bit of sectional rehearsal time. In my 60 student high school, that means lunch time. Well, I asked, and not only did the basses say "sure, that would be great, because then we can really work together in class instead of wasting time on learning our parts" [inside I was saying YES! YOU GET IT! CHOIR IS FOR BLENDING NOT FOR LEARNING PARTS THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] and then, they ate really quickly, and we got SO MUCH DONE and also I found out from something one of the basses said, that two of them practice together every single Wednesday at lunch. I mean, I require that they practice a certain number of times each week (though I am not really checking up on them) but it makes me so excited that they're practicing as a team.
:-D :-D :-D :-D
Have I ever mentioned that...
I LOVE TEACHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!