The choir is just like a garden. When the visitor enters the garden, if everything has been nurtured and watered, he will have a nice first impression, and he will look around searching for some more. But if the gardener forgots to water the little plants in the corners, and if he only gives attention [...]
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the singing garden
Posted in attention, growing the chours on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
no singing today, just a meeting
Posted in growing the chours, teaching techniques on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
has been a month full of thoughts and today we spoke about that thoughts. unfortunately we are not yet at the level whom the thoughts can fix into melody. So, the daily lesson has been a common meeting about organization (we need more organization…blabla) about new people (we need new people…blabla) about people with slow [...]
strong voice does not always comes from a strong will
Posted in emotional training, growing the chours, singing techniques on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We pass through high moments and low moments. Sometimes we keep flying for some meters, sometimes we stay below the ground level. Having strong bass voices is important, but keeping the note is important too. I don’t like young people singing because their voice is often empty and their way to take the note gives [...]
we are losing people
Posted in growing the chours on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Leaving people behind is the greatest error. Choosing only the fastest learning singers brings the illusion of acceletating the group learning process. The fast-singers if alone have usually poor voices in the global chorus, there are no tenores between us. We need untrained voices, we need a big group of people full of ancient passion. [...]