Johanna Speaks

Sophie and I had our choir performance three days ago. It was so much fun singing and being with friends! 

I am in the Chamber choir, and this time I have a duet, and I also did a song intro. The only thing I was truly nervous about was my song intro because my voice was still kinda bad. I was sick about a week ago, and I still had a stuffy nose, which made it hard to pronounce certain words, including my sick-sounding voice. But thankfully, it sounded a lot better than I expected.  

Here are two videos of me singing/reading that my family took:

Here is the whole performance link:

Sophie is in Junior choir (the dark blue shirts), and I am in Senior choir (the black shirts). 

Sophie is in the junior choir, and I am in the senior choir and the chamber choir.

The performance went great! Sophie and I had so much fun being in choir this semester. We made lots of friends, especially Sophie. I'm already sad that it ended. Everything passed so quickly! But I can't wait for next semester, which will be the Christmas one. I might try out for solos then, since I didn't try out for any this semester. I'm so glad I didn't try out this semester because my allergies have been so bad that it's been hard to sing well. But maybe next semester. It's just that I get so nervous right before singing that my voice gets shaky, and I sing in the wrong key. Plus, my brain will go blank at the last second. ☹️ I can sing fine when I'm by myself or when people are singing with me, though. It's just facing the crowd that's scary. 

Anyway, the performance went great! My favorite part was when a group of choir people performed an instrumental song called " I'll Fly Away." That's my favorite song, so I was so happy they did that! One of the guys did a banjo solo that sounded amazing. In the ensemble, there was one banjoist, two guitarists, one mandolinist, and two violinists. 

Sophie is in the Junior choir, which is the darker blue shirt. She is in the middle row, last person on the far right. 

I am in the Senior choir, wearing black shirts with blue lettering. If you go from top to bottom, I am in the second row from the top, in the second to last on the far right, if that makes sense. 

Here is the link to the performance:

My dad suggested doing a choir for our church, so Mrs.Orr ( our church pianist who has also directed a choir before ) said she could round up some people and have a choir ready for Easter even though Easter is in less than two weeks. And we only have about three times to practice. 

There are about ten people in the choir. I am also in it. At first, I was going to be the only soprano, but then another lady came, and she was also a soprano. So now it's all good. 

The song we are going to do for Easter is called Resurrection Victory. Here is a link to the song:

We went through half of the song since everybody had to learn the tenor, alto, and soprano parts. Next time we practice, we will go through the other half. I also just realized how high the very last part of the song is for the sopranos. 👀 Hopefully, it won't be too bad. 

I am really happy that I was able to get into chamber choir! Here's how the choir went on Tuesday:

When I got there, I saw so many new choir kids who weren't there last Tuesday. I even saw my old choir friend Sophie Shearmen! The Garza girls were not there because they got sick, so I was afraid of not having anyone to talk to, but I was wrong, thankfully. I even made a new friend named Candice. She's super sweet and easy to talk to. We were sitting next to each other, and we were both nervous about auditioning for the chamber. But she said she had done this before, so she wasn't as nervous as I was. 

So after choir, we all used the restroom, and then it was time for the auditions! 

Candice and I are both sopranos, so we got to sit next to each other, which was nice. 

Mrs.Dummer said that Candice and I would go first and echo her in her singing. I was super glad that we weren't going to sing by ourselves but as duos instead. So we sang a bit, and then Mrs.Dummer had everybody else do the same thing. Then she had us sing Amazing Grace all together while she and Mrs.Brown ( also another music teacher ) went around the room listening to our voices. It was honestly nerve-racking because it felt like we were in the army as they kept walking back and forth between us. 😂 And Mrs.Dummer had a yellow piece of paper scoring our singing. 

Then, it was time to go home. She told us that she would text us who would be making it in the chamber choir. And I just found out yesterday that I will be making it!!! I honestly thought I wouldn't make it in because there were a lot more better singers. But I guess I did! I am super happy about it because I think Candice also made it in!! It said on the piece of paper that Candice Moore is doing chamber choir, so I hope her last name is Moore. I will ask her on Tuesday if it is. 

But yeah, I am just so happy and excited about it!