Sing Out Loud

A lot of people have told me, that the best way to get new friends during the exchange year is to join in some kind of club, team or group. Because I'm not really into team sports or clubs, but I play piano, I decided to tryout for music groups! Music groups are totally different here in the USA than in Finland because we don't even have choirs or any after school activities. 

In my school there is a show choir, acapella group, county chorus, holiday production companies and a group called Glitter Girls. Because I have a music as subject in my schedule, I am automatically in a concert choir. Girls are separated as a soprano 1 or 2 and alto 1 or 2. And of course boys as tenor 1 or 2 and bass 1 or 2. I am singing alto 1. It is really fun, because usually altos don't sing the melody of the song! And as a alto you don't have to reach to the highest notes. 

Here are the songs that we are singing in the concert choir. Breath Of Heaven, Betelehemu, That's the Good News and Hallelujah chorus. (Yes, the Hallelujah chorus from Handel, where you sing hallelujah for hundreds of times!) And oh my god how good the songs sounds! When there are eight different voice parts singing a song it just have to sound amazing. Everybody in this choir is so talented and our teacher is really good and demanding. That's the Good News is maybe my favorite song of these! It really represents that kind of song that I've always been thinking of when someone mentions a high school choir! We are going to sing these songs at Holiday Concert and there is actually one more song that we are opening with, In December.

So I had my singing audition to the groups week after school started and a dance audition week after that. I had to sing one song that I picked and then a weird hanukkah song to show my teachers that I can read notes. In dance audition we learned a really fast musical choreography in ten minutes. After a short time practice in small groups we went to show off to the teachers. It was really difficult, I haven't dance for years since I quit dance lessons! At least I tried my best!

Last week we finally got the results! I got in to Glitter Girls and Winter Company!! I couldn't be happier :) Winter Company should start in a month or something, we are going to sing a couple of holiday songs. Glitter Girls is in spring time and are going to perform in the Spring Concert.