1. Dress Smartly, Go early (why? read the next point), and once you are there, don't get busy chit-chatting. You are representing your school and such behaviours will only make you look bad and childish and "suaku" (like you've never attended concerts or been to Esplanade, even though it's true, have class please. Ting-Tongs, are you there?). You need to behave like a Professional Audience regardless of the behaviours or dressing of others. Many concert goers dress horribly and very inappropriately, trying to look cool but end up looking like Ah-Lians and Ah-Bengs. Bad Taste, don't do that! No need to over-dress. If you wear skirt, make sure it does not go above your knee. If you wear pants, make sure it's length at least touches the ankle. No slippers!
2. Read carefully the description of each song before the show starts. If you can't help but want to chit-chat, then, do so intelligently but quietly, preferably discuss about the contents of the concert programme, by trying to understand what each song is about. Any comments about the performances, keep to yourself. Perhaps some of you can't help but laughing or commenting on how you feel about the performances, and for the more childish ones, who is handsome and pretty or ugly or weird etc., you figure yourself if it's appropriate.Truth is, you never know who is sitting around you! If you can't help it, communicate through writing, don't speak out!
3. Listen attentively to how much the music and the performance delivers the story as described in the concert programme. Close your eyes sometimes, to see what the music has painted or made you imagine. Has the music or performance touched you in any way?
4. Look at how the singers/choristers present themselves. Look at how they walk in, how they stand, how they prepare themselves to sing, how they sing and perform, how do they make their performance interesting and excellent, how they end (for every song). Good or bad, as audience we see very clearly. Learn all the good and bad points, adopt the good, don't make the bad. That's why you attend concerts!
After the concert, write down your thoughts and feelings about the concert, reflect upon it, compare with yourself as a chorister, and compare with your own choir. Write down whatever you think or feel. Then write what you like or dislike about your own choir, and what do you wish for the choir to be next year, what do you hope to bring home from the concert and see it apply or happening (or not happening) in your own choir.
Hand in to me, so that I know what you hope our choir would be, and I will lead the choir towards it. :)
Yes, That's Your Homework!
I want it handed in when the choir starts it's first day of training in 2010!
Meanwhile, Enjoy The Concert! *big evil grin*
Ms Goh @ JSS Choir
http://ms-goh.blogspot.com/
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