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How Concert Choir Changed My Life

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It was the beginning of fifth grade and the start of a brand new year. A clip board goes around and at that very moment without even knowing it, I start the very thing that has become so important to me. Signing that clip board got me an audition to join choir. I was nervous and the only thing that helped was that the audition was singing our school song. I had sung that very song every school day for a little over two years. That is all it took to become a part of something that would be held close to my heart the rest of my life. I remember the first rehearsal. There was nothing but girls in the room. We had already known the instructor pretty well due to the previous years of music classes. She had already been one of my favorite teachers. A roll of toilet paper got passed around. None of us knew what for. The only instructions are to take as many as desired. I take four squares. We then get told that each piece we have we must tell something about ourselves to the group. After that was done, we gradually had a better understanding of all the choir members. We learned some music …show more content…

Concert Choir was my second period class. Like the years before, I looked forward to Mrs. Hudson’s class the most. Mrs. Hudson always asks how our summer went or what we are up to. She begins class with a little music theory and then we warm up our voice. We sing and work on our parts until we get it just right. In my memory, Mrs. Hudson will be of the few that put performing arts classes in my school. Little do people know but we don’t get funds for choir and it is a lot of work to do what she does every day. From picking music, teaching at three different schools, fundraising, festivals, concerts, field trips, and getting us performance ready, she does more than what is expected. I will forever appreciate all she has done and all she had taught me. She is the person who taught me to love music and enjoy every

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