In a message dated 9/20/00 12:56:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mc_silon@h... writes:
<< The experience of singing in a choir is indispensable to a good musician: it develops the hearing, and completes our musical education and instruction. You see, the choir repertoire is too fabulously big, rich and important to be ignored. Sometimes, it can also improve our singing. It can help to overpower excess of timidity, and to be ready to future performances as a soloist. >>
Not only completing our musical education, but structuring our entire life of music making; vocal ensemble, not only choir/chorus, but the many permutations and combinations which cast us as, at times, soloist, duetist, chorister, are all vital and rewarding. I guess I'm a team player, as 99% of the concerts, recitals or gigs I've been involved in have been joint recitals, vocal ensemble, chamber music with voice, or choral. Marie-Claire mentioned also that choral singing helps one get over being timid. When you are combining with others: together=ensemble, it's easier to take the focus off of *self* and put it onto the whole equation, the music.
Cheers, Doris Long Thurber
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