Thursday, May 22, 2008

found out that nothing can capture a heart...

Hello Choir! :D

This is my first ever entry in the choir blog (shouldn't be the last, still it's ironic how my first entry should come at this time).

But that's besides the point. I came here for a reason.
There is a certain fact about songs that many people have forgotten.
It is so simple that it's almost common sense. However, it's probably due to it's simplicity that many find it insignificant and forget about it eventually.

People, music in a song is important, no question about that, but the significance of lyrics are not to be ignored.
The meaning of the song, is the very soul and the purpose the music is composed in the first place. Without the words, songs are not songs..

We have a tendency to just sing the pieces without a conscious effort to mean what we sing.
Can you feel the Excitement when singing "America"?
What about the Joy and sense of gratitude in "Thank You for the Music"?
Imagine yourself as the audience, do you think you can sense these emotions and feelings being conveyed from the songs in the way we are singing it?
As for "Beauty and the Beast"?
"Where is the Love?"


Still, it's not too late to change things, this is a matter of putting your soul in music-making, to make the songs you sing humane, induce your feelings in them, personify them.
Give life to the music.

All that is possible with a change in attitude.
Please sing like you've never done before, mean what you sing, become the character you're singing as.
Remember, tomorrow's a time when you can be somebody you are not and no one will criticise you.
Become a "Beast" in love in "Beauty and the Beast".
Become a "Puerto Rican" in "West Side Story".
Be that "girl with golden hair".

Live the character

Chin Yan

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