so...
choir workshop was pretty okay, much to my surprise.
although it was a bit tiring, due to the long hours.
the new song, adeiu sweet amarilis was relatively easy to learn.
performance piece daemon irrepid callidus (i found out it's latin, Zhi Ying!) was okay,
if not for some people who simply cannot sing just two repetitive notes properly.
christina, christel and i were very worried. i mean, it's just D, C, D, C... and on and on for very long, but still they can't get it.
and they also can't get the 'sinister' feel.
and their adeiu was very airy.
so, needless to say, we were very worried, without worrying for the SIX guys. not 6 tenors, or 6 basses, but 6 tenors AND basses.
however, turns out we needn't have been so worried, cos the guys decided to buck up and be very loud, even louder than the guys from the other schools that had like, 5 times the number of guys than us.
and we were also the smallest choir there.
fairfield was ranked the best, but i think we were second. they only named the 1st cos they said it would be demoralizing.
when the various sections from the 3 other schools were asked which school they thought were the best, all the basses from the 3 other schools thought we were the best, and i think 2 of the other schools thought that the tenors were the best. and when we sent up the representative for our school's bass section, eeron said he thought that our school's bass was the best, and we were all laughing like crazy. i mean, is like the guy really lian pi hen hou.
and a lot, i think 2 schools thought that our sops were the best, and also about 2-3 schools thought our altos were the best :D
although afterwards ms yin said we were sucky (not in her own words)
but i also felt that we didn't do so well, so i was relatively surprised.
we definitely did better when we were rehearsing in the AVT, but when we came out, we sort of got stage fright, even though before that eeron was like telling eveyone not to be scared lols.
so actually i think that we are not as bad as we seem, just that we have to keep the morale going.
because after all it's quality and not quantity that matters.