I.
Parrallel Solos
Choose a well know solo or melody to sing in unison with your choir. I like to use "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Once you are confident they know it, ask your singers to move around the room singing it to as many different different people as they can, as if they are a soloist. You will have parrallel solos. They are all singing the solo at the same time to each other and alongside each other. Once they have sung a line or two they can swap partners, but let this happen naturally. Encourage them to sing directly facing another person and to be expressive and dramatic.
What do you discover happens? How do you singers feel afterwards? Did you see any transformations?
II.
Starting a New Community Choir
Six years ago, I set up The Great Day
Choir – a daytime pop choir for women of all ages. At the time, I was
feeling constrained in my job prospects as a part time secondary school
classroom music teacher. So I thought that I could use my passion and
skills for leading singing to start up a daytime choir for women and
turn it into a second income.
When I look back on that time, I see
that there were views I held and actions I took, that were so misguided.
But to be fair I knew no different.
Here are 8 mistakes I made, that I
hope you won’t.
Read on....
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