One of the challenges of any good
choral ensemble is to be ruthlessly honest with yourself and others.
As singers we require loads of outside input and criticism because-
let’s face it---how we sound in our own head is never how others
hear us! How you sing in the shower “dies hard” when you are
required to sing well with others!
It is easy to bristle at criticism and
yet it is the very thing which allows us to improve. What if we
decided to change our perceptions and not look at criticism as a
personal attack? I could be hungry for criticism! What do I
have to lose...really?
We recognize groups that have decided
to approach their craft this way. They are infused with a certain
energy and the group is stronger for it. Isn’t this one the many
intangibles that draws us in and affects us when we see a spectacular
performance?
A willing excitement to have our rough
edges chiseled away…perhaps this is what makes great art!
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