University Daily Kansan, July 17, 1985
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Summertime is for singing
Chorus class geared toward fun
Bv Sherry Gerina
Staff Reporter
Some people sing just for fun, while others make a career out of it. For those who sing for pleasure and pro-
tect summer chorus hits the right note.
"We have a good time, and I enjoy it," James Ralston, professor of music and director of the chorus, said Sunday.
No auditions are conducted for the class, Summer Reading Chorus, CHUM 612. Students earn one hour of credit for gathering every Monday through Friday and to sing. The class ends Monday. About 20 to 25 people are enrolled.
"The chorus is not pressing," he said. "I tell them that sometimes we do a concert and sometimes it's just for fun."
The pace of the class is more relaxed than the fall chorus, Ralston said. The main goal of the fall chorus is to prepare music for performances, but the summer chorus is geared more toward practice and enjoyment.
"The purpose of the summer chorus is to go through as much repertoire as we can." Ralston said.
Michael Boring, Lawrence senior.
said he enrolled in the summer chorus because it was a class he needed for sight singing, which is the ability to sing a song without having
He said the summer chorus had helped him build his sight-singing skills and exposed him to all types of music.
Boring said that during the summer chorus he had been exposed to everything from Baroque composers Bach and Handel to modern composers such as Mechem and Kirby Shaw.
"Ralston tries to give a good background on the piece," he said.
Ralston said there were several reasons he selected certain pieces for the show.
This fall, he said, the combined chorus and orchestra will perform "Solomon" by Handel, and he will have the chorus sight read the piece himself. But what if it sounds like and what he needs to work on for the fall concert.
Sometimes he selects certain music because he is unfamiliar with it, and it introduces him to new pieces, he said.
He also said he goes into the music
library in Murphy Hall and selects pieces that have a theme.
For instance, Ralston said that one year he selected pieces that had the word "sing" in them for the week's church practice. Another week he picked pieces from the word "glory" or "gloria" in the title
He said that although some summers the chorus performed, this summer it would not get the chance.
"I look for opportunities to perform and nothing came up this summer," he said.
Halston he formed the chorus in 1976 because he wanted to have a group that was a mixture of students and the student body and the community.
Ralston said he wanted to have a group other than the junior and senior high hands and vocal groups of the University city of Kansas during summer camp.
He said another reason he had begun the chorus was because he had taught conducting in the summer and needed a chorus that his students could stand in front of to practice their directing.
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