Friday, August 14, 2020

Pandemic boychoir

Heartbreakingly, one of the most unsafe activities these days is singing together with other people. Yet somehow the choirs go on! Boychoir has been particularly successful, at least from Aaron's point of view; their twice-weekly zoom rehearsals are consistently fun, rewarding, and invigorating for him. The director meets with 5-7 of them at a time and they do a lot of one-on-one work: sight reading, ear training, and vocal work. They have regular recording homework, too; the director assembles their recordings into beautiful "virtual choir" videos. These get a lot of attention on social media and for good reason. Here are three: 




Jordan also meets weekly with Vocalpoint and has occasional recording sessions, but they record in small ensembles, and he has not appeared in one yet.

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