Instrumentalists: don’t drown your singers!

As singers we have many reasons and personal purposes for singing.  But essentially our ‘mission’ is to deliver a message to our listeners based on the composer’s lyrics.  We want to impart this message with feeling, dynamics, and emotion.  We also want to articulate the words well, so that people will understand what we are…

Singers, you must have a purpose

When you sing, do you think about why you are doing it?  It could be just because we love to make a joyful noise, or that we want to improve our technique, we want to hit a particular note as accurately as possible, or just because we are happy to be alive.  We don’t want…