Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Sectionals. How effective are they? Discuss.

HAHAHA ever since this evening's choir practice, I've been thinking about the effectiveness of sectionals. They are there for us to improve, in our own section, correcting our OWN mistakes, so that we do not have the TENDENCY to sing the WRONG notes/rhythm during combined rehearsals.

Sectionals are there for a distinct reason, and I remember very acutely in DHS how we were reprimanded for coming back from sectionals with the same mistakes, bearing no progress whatsoever, other than the incessant screeching produced from our violins.

Similarly, the same scenario which torture section leaders repetitively occur in JC too. Members who don't listen, fool around, engage in excessive small talk, are of course, present in every CCA, unless you can provide me with 50 extremely shy people in a single CCA who are anti-social. Fooling around once in awhile is alright, I believe. Hey, even the SL gets bored after repeatedly drilling the same 4 notes into 5 guys for 15 mins you know :X However, I don't think that it should compromise the precious time that we have during sectionals. They are, after all, for correcting our mistakes and improving on blending, pitching, and stuff like that. If improvement cannot be achieved, then the sectionals have lost its purpose. The result? Massive wastage of time when the conductor comes to do combined rehearsals. Time which should be spent on correcting the overall blending of the choir and timing of 4 different parts, instead of only 1 or 2.

I sincerely believe that each and every one of us has a big part to do during sectionals, whether be it the SLs trying their utter best (and i mean it) to correct mistakes, or the members scrambling to write something important their SL just mentioned, everyone should cooperate together to ensure smooth facilitation of sectionals, which would culminate in enhanced effectiveness so that precious (Gollum: "My..... Preciousssssss....") time will not be wasted during combined rehearsals.

Rawr. <3 MJChoir~
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sOmEbOdY|1/16/2007 11:14:00 PM|

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