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From:  Fiona Chow <fionat@i...>
Date:  Thu Jul 6, 2000  8:47 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Bach's choir, was: sight singing and piano skills


>performed 2 new pieces a week.
>
>That describes almost all the church choirs I have been part of for about 4
>decades! I urge my serious music students (others, too, for that matter) to
>join a church choir, because it is the best place I know of to really learn to
>sight read. You have to do it all the time, and performance is a great moti-
>vator!

My church choir only rehearses the morning of the service, most of
the time. To be in the choir, one has to be able to sightread - well.

Fiona


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