*sings* Joshua fit the battle of Jericho...

[candyland]

For our third Conducting test, we have to pick a choral piece, teach it to the choir, and then direct it at the last concert, which is the outdoor one. So it's quote-unquote "fun music." Mrs. K is directing everyone in "Somewhere," from West Side Story. This is the one they did for All-State my senior year. *pokes* Hey, msbbt, remember that one? I despise the musical, but the arrangement is beautiful ♥

Why do I hate West Side Story, you may ask? Simple--I'm sick of it. Freshman year of high school, it was the marching band show. Sophomore year, it was the musical. Senior year, "Somewhere" was part of the All-State set (though it was partially redeemed by virtue of being a gorgeous arrangement). HATE.

Anyway, so we're doing that with large amounts of lurv. Then each of the Conducting Kids gets to do one. Sarah chose "Rockin' Jerusalem." Rev (aka Cory) picked "On the Street Where You Live." Rage picked "Come Sail Away." I picked the Moses Hogan arrangement of "The Battle of Jericho."

*pokes again* msbbt, remember that one, too? I get to conduct it now, yay!!

The run-through went a lot better than I thought it would. I remembered I had a recording of it, too, so I pulled that out and played it for everyone, and then we sight-read. We made it to the last part before the train derailed. So talked through it, ran it again, people caught on by about the second measure of it. It's really not a hard song, note-wise, but there are a lot of fast rhythms, which can make it tricky. The men's part has a little more to it than the women's, but from what I heard today, the low basses are feeling some ♥ towards the part ^__^

In other, non-choir-related news, I posted icons for this week's theme at tantei_stills. First time entry. I'm still a baby when it comes to Photoshop and making icons, so I'm not sure how they measure up to the others entered there, but oh well. Guess I'll find out =P If I place, awesome. If not, oh well, I tried.

Looking forward to break *checks another day off on the calender* Even more looking forward to spending quality time with Kat-chan, involving food and most likely discussion of anime/fics. It's just so much nicer when we can fangirl face-to-face!!

Oh, and mint_eclair pointed out in response to the Conan musical (*huggles all the lovely people who left comments*) that I have unintentionally created the Conan crack-pairing to end all Conan crack-pairings. And now the plunnies are chewing on my head and demanding I write it as OTP O_O Kat--HELP!!

Note to self: While perusing random files on my compuer, found several relatively LJ-worthy convos with magic_truth. Must post for reading enjoyment of fandom...

Comments

[belle-truth.livejournal.com]

I'm in my first year of chorus (though it's my senior yer in HS) and we did this really beautiful arrangement of a song called Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Now, for the Spring concert, we're doing a really nice arrangement of "Lullaby" by Billy Joel. I wish we were doing showtues though, atleast one, lol.

[articulation.livejournal.com]

We sang Moses Hogan's "Elijah Rock" for Metro .. and now we're singing it at State, too, I guess. Moses Hogan's music is so much fun. ♥ And I sang "Somewhere" for my voice recital, even though I hate Westside Story. The song is just too pretty to be from that show. XD

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

I still remember the words in La Boheme. Do you think I've forgotten those XD? Heck, I knew the Hogan Battle of Jericho before we sang it o_O. We're doing a women's choir version this year that I don't like as much, but oh well. We need a new soloist for Tanzania which will be funny cause the girl that had it before can jazz stuff up like there's no tomorrow and none of the other girls can do that XD *will audition for the heck of it*

[inquisitorial.livejournal.com]

right now....my band is reading the music from westside story...bass clarinets dont get anything fun except the thing from cool...but on the plus side....we are also reading music from prince and tina turner and there is a lot of fun bass things in their music!