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Tags and Swipes, Spring 2021

Our Zoom music education classes continue to grow stronger. We are improving our skills on interval
work, we are becoming masters at identifying wrong notes played in a sequence and are improving our
rhythms and tonality. A really fun project we are working on now is recording our parts as we sing
along to the tag “You’ve Gotta Have Heart” with Jen Cooke. Our team compiles the recordings and
we become our own sound judges and discuss the good stuff and the areas for improvement. Wendy
Pachter works extremely hard every week to come up with interesting and engaging lessons for us. She
has been a positive force for our chorus and continues to strive to increase our level of musical
education.
We have been able to do a lot of visual work during our classes.
Once we saw a presentation on different styles of dance. We
talked about how the different dances used specific parts of their
bodies – legs/ feet, middle / upper, and whole body. Donna
Doherty has also come up with some fantastic visual
demonstrations to teach us. We watched “Never Enough” from
The Greatest Showman and talked about the tension in the
performance and how everything is intentional – from movements
to the breaths that are taken. More recently, we had a presentation
on the Visual Communication category and used the example of
“This is Me”, also from The Greatest Showman, to see how
important it is to have context that brings our songs to life.

“Member Spotlight” continues, run by Janice Mottolo. We are enjoying the opportunity to learn more
about our members! Recently we have learned about one member’s favorite things - Paris, reading,
yoga, singing and gardening. Another showed us her unique light bulb collection! We also learned
about grand adventures of hiking the 46 Adirondack high peaks with another’s family.

We are all enjoying the extras provided by Region 1. They are
going above and beyond with their educational and outreach
program. Laura Murray created a fantastic video montage for
“Winter 1-derland” regional weekend in January. It was a
compilation of songs we did at our last major performance back in
2019. Many of us attended the Paving the Path from Pandemic to
Performance that was offered in February. In that class, we did a
very helpful activity of breaking into small groups and discussing
the 3 positives of Zoom rehearsals, the 3 negatives, and 3 things
that are here to stay. We replicated that activity in our own chorus
zoom rehearsal and it was so fascinating to get the perspective from
all our members. We are about 22-24 members every week on our
Zoom Music school rehearsals and growing!

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