WHEEEEEE! you know, as i type this, emotions run high and memories start to fill my mind of the endless experiences with the VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLGE CHOIR during this international choir competition at Riva del Garda, Italy. wheee.
ok. the results!
Category S (Musica Sacra): 6th
Category G3 (Mixed Youth Open): 1st
Audience Prize
Grand Finals: Champions !
you have absolutely no idea how euphoric we were at the results lohx. actually to be more accurate, we were already filling good when people gave us standing ovations and double clappings for us at both teh Grand Finals and the Mixed Youth Open. it was such a stunning experience to see that people sitting in that hall were touched and simply enjoying the music that we make. the sound that we produce was heavenly, well it sounded like that at least from where i was standing at.
alrights, now details for the individual categories. lets start with the Musica Sacra. i can still remember the tensions and the atmosphere when we were in that small holding room which could probably only fit only bout 45-60 people? ha. anyway, all 69 of us were in there excluding Mr Kwei, the teachers and the tour guides. omgosh. everybody was just so... TENSE. haha. practised confitemini there and i guess everybody was feeling better after listening to ourselves. yeah. haha. after that, we had a short prayer session where all the Christians and the Catholics joined hands and just prayed. to me, somehow that just bonded us in some way? i dunno man. haha. obviously there were all the hugging and the encouraging words and all, it was just great to see everybody united as one body. then it was our turn to sing. waiting at the entrance of the church in the slight drizzle was cold lohx. i mean imagine the temperature there without rain and wind was about 10degrees already. so plus the rain and the wind, it was freezing expecially for the girls in their gowns and nothing underneath (okay, this part i dunno) but we adapted by having group hugs with the girls in the middle and the guys on the outside. haha. since the guys had their blazers on, so to some extent we were more protected than the girls lahx. haha. okay. our turn soon came, and we walked in with that bright smile on our faces. whoo! this was it guys! hah. standing at the altar and facing the jury who were in the middle of the church was an awesome sight. i mean the entire church was pretty much dimly lit, so the only bright lights that you could see were the lights placed on the jury's table. was damn cool. will upload the pics soon i guess. haha. thank the heavens we remembered every single detail of the song and all. thank God for that. every song was heavenly partly because of the resonance and the reverbarations off the stone church walls. it was jsut beautiful lohx. hear my prayer was a personal prayer for me, wheread confitemini was amazingly beautiful. could picture all the angels and the heavenly hosts dancing and playing the instruments of praise as we sang. beautiful. went out feeling good and yeah. that was that
then the next competition for us was the Mixed Youth Open (G3). everybody were tense, i could feel the vibes. it was woah! haha. especially when the night before we had our public concert and we pretty much screwed the songs up. so i guess we were pretty afraid that we might make the same mistakes again. but i guess when we walked up that stage, for me the smiles on each person's face somehow lightened my load and somehow encouraged me, yeah. factum was fine. shower somehow resonated through the dry hall . zhuliguan impressed everbody and pamugun just ended our performance with such a bang! in fact, after we sang the hall gave us a standing ovation and it was jsut encouraging that while we did our best on stage, the people who gave their utmost attention to us enjoyed our singing. and frankly, as a performer for 6 years such an ovation is all that you want. the results no longer matter. it was enough. obviously considering that we practised bin-nam-ma and ashita for ages, dun perform and show what we have to offer, a bit the wasted ah>> so we were praying for the best lohx.
well. the best came. haha. prepared for the grand finals and it was just another amazing experience altogether. we were the sixth choir to perform and yea, while we waited, we could actually sit in and listen to the other competing choirs sing their pieces. it was little wonder that these choirs topped their category. amazing sound and beautiful voices. especially the choir right after us and the last choir. amazing amazing. okay. now for our performance. we went up on stage, and immediately people started making wolf calls and all that sorta thing for us. it somehow made me feel like some star. lolx. then again, all of us were to be able to make it thus far. we sang ashita whcih was okay lahx. i felt bin-nam-ma was better, but mr kwei felt ashita was better. haha. i dunno man. the pro speaks. haha. okay, then it was bin nam ma. WHEEEEEE! so exciting lahx. all the choreo that we practised like sai all came to pass lohx and even better, we did it all together and there was not time lapse in between lohx. haha. i mean i watched the recording and it was like that. haha. i really really loved the last part where the sound just resonated really far into the relatively dry hall. whoo! and after we sang, the ENTIRE HALL gave us a standing ovation. it was just an amazing feeling deep down inside and yea, i just felt like some superstar. i felt proud to be part of this choir, of this school, and simply to be a singaporean. it was amazing lahx. they stood for us, and i guess that lasted at least 3 minutes. jsut clapping and screaming from the audience. haha. then it died down. then as we walked off the stage, they clapped for us again. whoah! damn power-packed lahx.
then the results show. haha. they started by giving out the individual prizes to all the participating choir first, so whenever we heard our name, we just started roaring! haha. literally. lolx. then came the audience prize. haha. WE WON IT! haha. so exciting. okay, to explain what the audience prize is all about. its simply just a prize for the choir that impressed the most people ie. the most popular choir. lolx. wheeee. then we all got abit scared. cause we thought if we had won the audience prize, it was something like the runner-up prize or something y'all know? haha. so we were damn scared we didn't win the grand prize. haha. then the results came. the emcee went "and the grand prize winner is... and the grand prize winner is... the... Do you really want to know? (shouts and screams by us here) the grand prize winner is... the VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE CHOIR!" by the time we heard vic-, we all just stood up and screamed lahx. wahlau. nobody ever imagined that we could actually win the top prize of an international competition. it was just WOW. what can i say man? we jsut rock! then we ran up on stage to collect our prize which was a HUGE trophy. haha. whaoh!
we have fulfilled Psalm 150
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