Choir weekend
Hi there. I've spent this weekend with my choir, singing for many hours. It was hard work, but also lots of fun. The main part of our rehearsal work was focused on a suite of choral pieces written specifically for us by Jazz composer and saxophonist Joakim Milder to be preformed at the 40th anniversary of Umeå Jazz Festival this October.
The music is a quite spectacular mix of modern Jazz harmonics and contemporary classical music. The rhythm and pace is quite fluid, with lots of varying meters and the harmonics doesn't stay in specific keys, but at the same time many of the passages are breathtakingly beautiful. One other common denominator of the music, from a more technical point of view is that is is really difficult to sing. The melodies doesn't follow many of the common presuppositions that we have on melodies as well as rhythms. It is really bends the mind, and right now it feels a bit overwhelming to try to learn to sing it correctly. I have good hopes, however, that this will be spectacular when preformed.
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After a long summer break, this week it is finally for the choir that I joined last year to resume the weekly rehearsals. I'm so happy to have a choir as a part of the regular rhythm of my life again. Singing together, and working together in a group to learn new music and to sound good together is a really interesting process.
I am fortunate to live in a city where there is a really good chamber choir, and I really enjoy the way we sound (well, almost always) as well as the challenges that we take on.
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