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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the music played{10:31 PM}

hello choir! :D

i hope this is not too late. i cant really speak well in front of crowds, esp if it's impromptu. i cannot think properly & everything will come out really messy. so im here! :D

alright, so tomorrow's the day, our big day. tomorrow, a chapter will be closed. for many of us, esp the J2s, this may be the last concert we'll be doing. to the J1s, although there may still be next year, still another chance, i hope everyone WILL give their all. every single one of you in the choir is unique in your own way, and each one of you really makes a difference.

we've come a long way. preparations for concert began all the way from last year. we've practiced so hard, all the late nights, all the tiring days, days where we felt like giving up, all the happy & fun times, times where we may get irritated with one another. and all we have is only 1 chance, one chance to show the audience what the choir is really made of. we're not some slack cca where people come, sing songs and go. we're definitely more than that, right?

we only have ONE chance. so we either make it or break it. just 1 night. everyone, just give your all, enjoy the music and leave the stage with zero regrets. you may ask the seniors, the feeling of regreting because we didnt give our best is heartbreaking.

so once on stage tomorrow, stay calm, focus just let it flow.
we'll do fine (:

make it worthwhile okay, & no regrets!

"because of us, the joy in living is in singing"

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the music played{9:26 PM}