Sunday, November 8, 2015

Choir Camp

This weekend was the choir camp! We had a beautiful location right next to lake Neuchâtel in the area of Vaumarcus. The buildings were all modern and fancy! Our beds even had sheets, which was fun until we had to fit them all inside the laundry closet for washing... We sang for the entire two days except for snack and meal breaks during which we had the opportunity to swing on the swings, take the zip-line, and live dangerously on a rotating platform. Falling off was the best part!
I was not the only gluten intolerant Soprano, and this resulted in the manifestation of an incredible chocolate cake! The food in general was fantastic, and there was plenty of chocolate to be had in all different forms.
Our choir director was murdered the first night, so we all were put into groups and sent around the dorms to play games in order to win clues. My anthropological interest was sparked when my group was asked to sample identical chocolate pieces and determine their origin. From eighteen options varying from Swiss super market brands to famous Swiss chocolate makers, my group only mistook two! In the end we acted out the theory that we had developed based on our clues (often with the choir teacher playing himself), and the closest to the predetermined history won a bag of...What do you think? Chocolate! ...and they wonder where all these stereotypes come from!
I had a private meeting with our voice coach during which she decided that I had a lot more voice than I was willing to admit, and proceeded to have me stand in weird positions, do strange dance moves, and visualize all kinds of things. She was eventually satisfied with the sound that resulted from my visualizing becoming a fountain of...chocolate! I tried it all again in my room one day when my host family wasn't home, and managed to belt my entire Christmas carol "connaissance" complete with waltzing, and of course, being a chocolate fountain. The sound might not have been angelic, but I had a good time!
All in all, the weekend was happily spent with all the eccentric choir kids and our charismatic director. We managed to pound out an amazing about of beautiful music, while still being silly and having a great time. I think that I will really miss the opportunity to do it all again next year!

Some of the music that we worked on:
Heruwimska - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19tHb1OxoBs

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