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From:  "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)" <DCLARK@r...>
Date:  Thu Jul 6, 2000  4:38 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Bach's choir, was: sight singing and piano skills


JB wrote:

>I was in a church choir in which we rehearsed 3 new pieces a week and
performed 2 new pieces a week.

That describes almost all the church choirs I have been part of for about 4
decades! I urge my serious music students (others, too, for that matter) to
join a church choir, because it is the best place I know of to really learn to
sight read. You have to do it all the time, and performance is a great moti-
vator!

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2853 Re: Bach's choir, was: sight singing and piano sk Fiona Chow   Thu  7/6/2000   2 KB
2857 Re: Bach's choir, was: sight singing and piano sk DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTM   Thu  7/6/2000   2 KB

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