JV

(This is from October.) Now that Jordan is in high school, he’s not in the boychoir anymore – the boychoir is only sopranos and altos. Graduates of the boychoir can audition for Vocalpoint, which performs great music from mainly the 1960s-1980s in small ensembles, one voice per part. It’s very different from boychoir: you prepare your music mainly outside of rehearsal time, you perform with a mic, and you have to figure out how to act while you sing. Plus there are girls. It’s a great group of teenagers and I love that Jordan is among them.

In the fall, rehearsal time included a new solo every week. Each kid would choose a song from the gigantic Vocalpoint library, let the director know their choice, and prepare it on their own. At rehearsal, they would have 40 minutes of “mic time” during which each kid performed about one minute of their chosen song – solo, with a mic, to the audience of the other Vocalpoint members. Is that not amazing experience? I wish *I* could have been in Vocalpoint.

Jordan is in his training year, so he performs just for friends and family so far. There’s a video of his fall recital, in which he performs “Do you believe in Magic,” by The Lovin’ Spoonful. Contact me for the password if you want.