Choir Performance 4th of March at UCC!
Today is the big day! Yay! Varsity Voices Musica Sacra! My 1st performance in NUS choir since I joined this sem! Gonna give a blow-by-blow account from 1.30 in the afternoon today. First, we reached UCC 1.15. Johnni opened the door for us tenors to get into our dressing room. Last practice with Terrence and Nelson(conductors), and they dun seem to find any fault with us ^^.
3.30, final trial run. We ran through all the songs in order, practices our choreos, and did all of them almost perfectly(notice the word almost...XD). then we got to rest and wait for dinner! We all get dressed in our uniform, for 1st half, guys are in black from top to tote with a golden-coloured tie. After dinner, it's time for the big show! Varsity Voices, themed Musica Sacra this year!
The first song we perform is Missa Brevis, not much of a pressure here, as it's not that hard and quite short too. After Missa Brevis, it's time for the small ensemble to perform, and that includes me! Ok, besides me, there's Kelvin and Xianling too! Ok, there's oso Brian, Mark, Johnni, Harris, Iris, Kurien, Visayon and, erm, the others I dunno their name yet :P We performed the songs "Oh Lord The Maker" and "In Pace". It all went very well except the last "In", there's a split, note, I think might be caused by me:P, but other than that, all went very well!
Then it's the guest choir, Concorde primary school's performance, and at last, I get to rest a bit, and, man are my legs sore! Oh ya, the little girls from Concorde primary school looks so cute in their uniform, like a dool like that ^^. After that, we went back to the dressing room and waited for about half an hour, and changed to red ties for the 2nd half of the performance.
First song of 2nd half: Te Deum! I think the 5b people might have heard the tenor part of this song for a lot of time dy, heh, coz me singing this song almost 24/7, :P. Love this song, it was a blast! Then move on to Terrence's song, Ave Maris Stella, which we did quite well. Then it's Sanctus, and after that, Cantus Gloriosus. Love Cantus Gloriosus! I think 5b people might have heard it b4 too, or at least Syen had, coz I practically sang this song everytime during the journey to church a few weeks ago. After that, it's Adyll(Tenor's SL! Woot!0 spiritual songs. Starting with "Old Time Religion", then "Ain't That Good News"(Hau Yuen was the soloist for this song, u rock man! And I did one small mistake in the choreo, (-__-') ), then "Ride The Chariot", "We Shall Walk Through The Valley In Peace", and "Wade In The Water". After that, it's souvenir giving time! Showed our appreciation to all the people involved. Then it's time for encore! We sang Linden Lea as the encore for the nite, as it has the longest history in NUS choir, it's been in the choir since it's inauguration in 1981! Me dunno how the song goes actually(you can't blame me for this, I only knew we're going to sing that song on Thursday and got the score that day too... Don't have any time at all to learn it with all the CA's and stuffs.), and I only lip-sync with the others :P . After the song, Kim Wong and all of the msl-ians shouted our names, mainly Pei Suen, Alison, Ferdy, Xianling, Hau Yuen, and me! hihi, felt very happy to have some supporters shouting out our names in front of everybody ^^!
After performance, we took pictures with the Concorde primary school choir. Then it's time to head back home. Me and Ferdy went to eat some extra food leftover from dinner(it's not buffet style leftover u know, just extra boxes of food from dinner, in case ur thinking of something disgusting-_____-") Then when we got out to the front exit, we're invited yet again to have some refreshment! And so we eat again on the 2nd floor there! The chicken wings are so so nice! Only until we're full that we left UCC and head back for pgp.
Phew, that's about all that's interesting for the performance, it took me quite some time to write it all down, and I'm sure it took u all a bit of time to read through it all too :P. And man are my legs sore after i got back to pgp....
3.30, final trial run. We ran through all the songs in order, practices our choreos, and did all of them almost perfectly(notice the word almost...XD). then we got to rest and wait for dinner! We all get dressed in our uniform, for 1st half, guys are in black from top to tote with a golden-coloured tie. After dinner, it's time for the big show! Varsity Voices, themed Musica Sacra this year!
The first song we perform is Missa Brevis, not much of a pressure here, as it's not that hard and quite short too. After Missa Brevis, it's time for the small ensemble to perform, and that includes me! Ok, besides me, there's Kelvin and Xianling too! Ok, there's oso Brian, Mark, Johnni, Harris, Iris, Kurien, Visayon and, erm, the others I dunno their name yet :P We performed the songs "Oh Lord The Maker" and "In Pace". It all went very well except the last "In", there's a split, note, I think might be caused by me:P, but other than that, all went very well!
Then it's the guest choir, Concorde primary school's performance, and at last, I get to rest a bit, and, man are my legs sore! Oh ya, the little girls from Concorde primary school looks so cute in their uniform, like a dool like that ^^. After that, we went back to the dressing room and waited for about half an hour, and changed to red ties for the 2nd half of the performance.
First song of 2nd half: Te Deum! I think the 5b people might have heard the tenor part of this song for a lot of time dy, heh, coz me singing this song almost 24/7, :P. Love this song, it was a blast! Then move on to Terrence's song, Ave Maris Stella, which we did quite well. Then it's Sanctus, and after that, Cantus Gloriosus. Love Cantus Gloriosus! I think 5b people might have heard it b4 too, or at least Syen had, coz I practically sang this song everytime during the journey to church a few weeks ago. After that, it's Adyll(Tenor's SL! Woot!0 spiritual songs. Starting with "Old Time Religion", then "Ain't That Good News"(Hau Yuen was the soloist for this song, u rock man! And I did one small mistake in the choreo, (-__-') ), then "Ride The Chariot", "We Shall Walk Through The Valley In Peace", and "Wade In The Water". After that, it's souvenir giving time! Showed our appreciation to all the people involved. Then it's time for encore! We sang Linden Lea as the encore for the nite, as it has the longest history in NUS choir, it's been in the choir since it's inauguration in 1981! Me dunno how the song goes actually(you can't blame me for this, I only knew we're going to sing that song on Thursday and got the score that day too... Don't have any time at all to learn it with all the CA's and stuffs.), and I only lip-sync with the others :P . After the song, Kim Wong and all of the msl-ians shouted our names, mainly Pei Suen, Alison, Ferdy, Xianling, Hau Yuen, and me! hihi, felt very happy to have some supporters shouting out our names in front of everybody ^^!
After performance, we took pictures with the Concorde primary school choir. Then it's time to head back home. Me and Ferdy went to eat some extra food leftover from dinner(it's not buffet style leftover u know, just extra boxes of food from dinner, in case ur thinking of something disgusting-_____-") Then when we got out to the front exit, we're invited yet again to have some refreshment! And so we eat again on the 2nd floor there! The chicken wings are so so nice! Only until we're full that we left UCC and head back for pgp.
Phew, that's about all that's interesting for the performance, it took me quite some time to write it all down, and I'm sure it took u all a bit of time to read through it all too :P. And man are my legs sore after i got back to pgp....
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