{"id":753,"date":"2011-02-01T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=753"},"modified":"2011-02-01T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:32:02","slug":"getting-your-ward-choir-up-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/getting-your-ward-choir-up-and-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your Ward Choir up and running"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>How do you get your Ward Choir up and running?<\/p>\n

Here are a few ideas:-<\/p>\n

1. Instant choir. Call members as choristers (an official calling from the Bishopric), choose really easy hymns and let the choristers know when and what they’ll be singing. Have a quick rehearsal beforehand, then off you go. You need relatively good, reliable people to pull this off, but I have seen it done numerous times.<\/p>\n

2. Weekly rehearsals mass choir. You choose a time convenient to all, and practice once a week for a specified time. You could have a mix and mingle afterwards. Depending on the strength and capability of your choir, you could perform either monthly or bi-monthly (three times a month if you’re very bold and have very basic matieral).<\/p>\n

3. Half hour practice before\/after church in the chapel. We did this one year as we couldn’t meet together any other time. We had a double quartet anyway and weren’t too bad. I had simple hymns with interesting arrangements, or ones that were just dead easy to sing, and we were able to sing monthly in Sacrament meeting.<\/p>\n

4. Meet at some one’s home with lots of baked goodies afterwards (I raided the cheesecake shop). I think that was the year I actually put on some weight \ud83d\ude09 And the year we had the best choir turnout!<\/p>\n

5. Same as above, but skip rehearsals completely on Fast Sunday. You have to make sure you schedule your choir items at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

6. Alternating men and women. One month have the menfolk sing. The next have the women sing. This is separate to having Relief Society or Priesthood singing as a group en masse.<\/p>\n

7. If you have enough, organise a Primary Choir. Have them as an occasional choir, singing songs from the Primary Songbook. I find it’s usually better just assigning Primary a song early enough in the year so it doesn’t interfere with the Presentation, or do “Primary’s Choice” – leave the decision of what they would like to do up to them. They could test drive something they are working on for the Primary Presentation this way.<\/p>\n

8. Almost the same idea as the Primary choir, but have a youth choir instead. They are very busy with Seminary and Mutual but getting them together on occasion shouldn’t be too much (I’m talking maybe 3 times a year).<\/p>\n

Always let your choir members know how much they are valued and appreciated.<\/p>\n

If possible, get your Bishopric involved with the choir, even so far as singing in it.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you get your Ward Choir up and running? Here are a few ideas:- 1. Instant choir. Call members as choristers (an official calling from the Bishopric), choose really easy hymns and let the choristers know when and what they’ll be singing. Have a quick rehearsal beforehand, then off you go. You need relatively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}