Landing on the hard consonants and using them at the beginning of the word to propel the pitch forward worked perfectly. However, where there were any uncertain parts, prime example being the "Fa la la" section of “Fire”, our intonation, as well as all the other technical aspects declined rapidly in quality. As far as rhythmic accuracy goes, “Fire” may have lacked that quite a bit in the “Fa la la” section of the song, as well as small hiccups in some of the alleluia phrases of the Latin piece suffered a smidge. Other than that I feel that our best performances dealing with the drive of singing, vowel shape, consonant placement, dynamic control, phrase shaping, attack, and finally release were executed almost perfectly in “If Music be the Food of Love” and “I am in Need of Music.” In either song we were with the conducting better than either of the other songs and we sang technically so strongly and with such enthusiasm that it made the overall presentation of the song that much greater and
Landing on the hard consonants and using them at the beginning of the word to propel the pitch forward worked perfectly. However, where there were any uncertain parts, prime example being the "Fa la la" section of “Fire”, our intonation, as well as all the other technical aspects declined rapidly in quality. As far as rhythmic accuracy goes, “Fire” may have lacked that quite a bit in the “Fa la la” section of the song, as well as small hiccups in some of the alleluia phrases of the Latin piece suffered a smidge. Other than that I feel that our best performances dealing with the drive of singing, vowel shape, consonant placement, dynamic control, phrase shaping, attack, and finally release were executed almost perfectly in “If Music be the Food of Love” and “I am in Need of Music.” In either song we were with the conducting better than either of the other songs and we sang technically so strongly and with such enthusiasm that it made the overall presentation of the song that much greater and