Hi, Nat here if you can still remember me :) Just some encouragement here, won't kill to listen :)

You guys have to make this concert a blast. The audience out there are paying to watch a Gold choir perform. You have to show off that Gold quality in this Choir, and you are gonna do it. This is a chance for you guys to bring up the whole Choir morale.

Concerts usually boost the morale, so give it your all, and then strive to earn that Gold for SYF 09. Yo, Gold is never an easy thing. The whole having-a-gold-for-syf trend in CCHMS Choir used up loads and loads of hardwork, sweat, tears, and sacrifices. You guys have the potential for Honours too okay. All it takes is hardwork, cooperation and really... sacrifice.

Sacrifice for this Choir, and be willing to give your all. This way, when you leave CCHMS you'll never forget this Choir. Because when you look back and see your sacrifices were paid off, that satisfaction in you will be so great it's indescribable.

The comm and you people have been improving tremendously and nothing should bring you guys down now, when concert is just 6 days away. Concerts and competitions have never been destinations for Choir. They are part of your journey in Choir here. So after this concert, anticipate for the SYF. Not "Phew it's over time to slack". It's "Next up, SYF 09. Gold!"

The Gold may be for the school, for the reputation blahblah. But ultimately, it's for you. The efforts you guys put in must be fully paid off, and duh you have to get the Gold then.

ALL THE BEST, CCHMS CHOIR! :) You guys have great potential. I want to see it on 13th Nov, and so will everybody else there :)

Ah feels so great to say all these again.... I miss you guys!

UPDATED @ 29 OCT, 2008!


Additional practices:
30 Oct: 12.30 - 3pm (Open House rehearsal)
1 Nov: 8 - 12pm (Open House)
8 Nov: 10am - 1pm

30 days to our concert!

31 days to our concert!

CCHMS CHOIR PRACTICE SCHEDULE
Oct & Nov 2008

13-10-08(Mon): 3-6pm Music Room
Sec 1BN, CR, DL, EP, FG, HM members are to report by 3.45pm [Art Museum Visit]
Sec 3BN, CR, MD, RP members excused from practice [Heritage Tour]

15-10-08(Wed): 3-6pm Music Room
Sec 3DL, EP members excused from practice [Heritage Tour]
Sec 1GR, IT, JT, LY, MD, RP members report by 4.45pm [Art Museum Visit]

17-10-08(Fri): 4-6pm Music Room

20-10-08(Mon): 3-6pm Music Room
[School Promotion Day]


21-10-08(Tue): 3-6pm Music Room

22-10-08(Wed): 3-6pm Music Room

23-10-08(Thurs): 2-5pm Music Room
Sec 3CR, EP, GR, IT, LY, RP students excused from practice [Self-Awareness Workshop]

25-10-08(Sat): 9.30am-1pm Music Room

28-10-08(Tue): 2.30-6pm Music Room
Practice optional for Sec 3 members taking HCL [O Level CL preparation]

30-10-08(Thurs): 9am-12.30pm Music Room
Sec 3s excused [Extension Week]

31-10-08(Fri): 9am-12.30pm Music Room
Sec 3s excused [Extension Week]

4-11-08(Tue): 2-5pm Music Room
No practice for Sec 3 HCL students [O Level CL paper]

6-11-08(Thurs): 9am-12.30pm Music Room
Sec 3s excused [Extension Week]

7-11-08(Fri): 9am-12.30pm Music Room
Sec 3s excused [Extension Week]

10-11-08(Mon): 2-5pm Music Room
Concert Programme Run-through 1

11-11-08(Tues): 9am-12.30pm Music Room
Concert Programme Run-through 2

12-11-08(Wed):9.30am-3pm Music Room
Concert Programme Run-through 3

13-11-08(Thurs):Full Day Singapore Arts Museum
Concert

17-11-08(Mon): 9am-12pm Music Room

19-11-08(Wed): 2-5pm Music Room

20-11-08(Thurs): 9am-12pm Music Room

24-11-08(Mon): 2-5pm Music Room

27-11-08(Thurs): 2-5pm Music Room

All are to attend unless specified or personally excused by Miss Ng or Mr Loh (not by your SLs). Your SLs will hold extra sectionals at other times and attendance is compulsory. Attendance will be marked for sectionals and Miss Ng can fail your attendance if you don't turn up without a valid reason.

Tuition classes, piano classes, or whatever other classes you have (as usual) are to be re-scheduled in order not to clash with choir practices. Do not expect the whole section or the whole choir to wait for you to catch up with the songs and preparation because you went missing (it's not like the whole choir went tuition with you).

As seen from the schedule we do not have much time left to our concert so please treat everything seriously. If you don't know your songs, ask your SLs or go learn it on your own.
We're not putting up a concert just for the sake of it. Everything that we've accumulated over this period will eventually be useful in the future (especially SYF next year).

And those who've not watched or heard Beauty and the Beast, please take the initiative to go and watch it or listen to it, so that our speed of learning can be doubled. (It's available on Youtube)

Also, I hope you've all prepared your songs for busking, it's coming soon!

Lastly good luck to all Sec 3 HCL students for our O Level paper!
Christina :D

heyys choir

heyys choir please be reminded that tml is the first choir practice after exams EVERYONE TURN UP K!!! FULL ATTENDANCE!! it will be from 10-1pm at the music room, bring along your scores and all ppl. by the way, we'll be doing BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, so..GEAR UP PPL!! we'lll be taking to the stage on nov13, not much time left, COME ON! SYF 2009 CCHMS CHOIR GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD. not that far to reach, juz put in your 101% during practices, a heart for the choir, we'll make it there. WE WILL. cyaaz all tml. sheryl wants to see all her choirists tml!
loves

Choir:

Please get yourselves into groups for busking after EOYs.

Submit your groups to your SLs by next Friday 3rd October 2008.

If your SLs do not receive your group arrangements by then, I will arrange you guys myself.

Each group should (preferably) not have more than 8 members maximum.

Arrange the pieces you wish to perform such that not everyone is singing the melody. E.g. Background singing, harmonizing, etc. But not EVERYONE sings the same thing.

If you don't know what to sing look for Ms Ng who will give you songs to sing.

&Lastly:
Good luck for EOYs ;D

HEY CHOIR!

Yesterday was the first time since many months that we performed in front of a big audience isn't it? Don't matter who went out of tune, who didn't sing loud enough or who sang wrongly. At least we didn't have a major screw-up and we did okay(:

The next practice will be after our exams on marking day (10 Oct), from 10am to 1pm.

Please come back as we'll be commencing our intense preparations for our concert in November!

And we also need everyone's cooperation as we have a Beauty and the Beast medley (approx 9 minutes long) to learn on time. And who knows, we might need to learn choreography also (I don't know, we did choreo for Les Miserables last time also so maybe we did to for this also).

So good luck for your exams and keep your passion for choir burning!

Christina :D

Sept Holidays Schedule

September Holidays Schedule

Monday: 9.30am - 12.30pm

Thursday: 9.30am - 12.30pm

Extra sectionals:

Altos:

Tuesday: 2 - 5pm

Wednesday: 10am - 1pm

Friday: 2 - 4pm

Please produce teacher's excuse letters if you're going for remedials, MCs if you're sick, photocopy of passport if you're overseas.

my choir

heyys choir.sheryl here. i juz wanted to tell you all why i haven been attending choir. the whole tcr day was handled by the councillors, so we had to be there to oversee rehearsals and everything. please always know that my thoughts never left the choir, and i always come to the blog to check for tags, and i also talk to some of u to check out updates abt practices. choir, we've been stagnant too long. let's work harder together k? i know, some may think: choir's boring.no sense of satisfaction. but hey, why no sense of satisfaction.do u point at others? no ppl, we have been stagnant, nothing that outshone our previous results hence that feeling.people grow weary, tired of everything.HANG IN THERE PEOPLE, WE ARE THAT CLOSE TO OUR CONCERT. i know exams are coming, everybody is stressed up and busy mugging.but pls don forget u have to attend choir practices. don think u never turn up nobody knows, coz we're all keeping records. if at the end of the yr, your whole attendance is not even 75%, say bye bye to your cca points and all. i hope that coming to choir, isnt juz because u need a cca, u need your points.but rather for the passion, the drive to want to make good music and stay together. prove it to others that we are capable of achieving greater heights and to keep up to ms yin's expectations. we've been dreaming for too long, we've let ms yin shed lots of tears for us.it's time we get up on our feet and do some serious business.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH THIS CHOIR/
regards,
sheryl
jia you for your exams kkz ppl.AND, TURN UP FOR PRACTICES AND UR EXTRA SECTIONALS DURING THE HOLIDAYS