Tonight I watched a portion of the Young Men's Chorus rehearsal and all of the Mixed Youth Chorus rehearsal at CMS.
I thought there were a lot of note-worthy things about the kids and Kyle's leadership.
First of all, it is the week of their concert, so they were in total "beast-mode" as Kyle put it. Both rehearsals had great flow, and I was surprised at how attentive and focused such a wide age group of kids could be. There are a handful of middle school kids and all ages of high school students. Even when the boys and girls choir came together, they worked really hard and followed Kyle well. He never really stopped instruction and I thought he had a nice balance of letting them sing and stopping to give instruction.
It was pretty clear that most of the kids in the choir were motivated to be there, a luxury probably of a community choir vs. a public school choir. Kyle had obviously done a ton of hard work with them, though, because they only rehearse for half hour-once a week and I was really impressed with their sound for choir of mixed ages. It was refreshing and inspiring to watch them work together :)
No comments:
Post a Comment