Practices and Movie Sharing

Dear all,

Following are the details for next week practices.

Date: 6 December 2010 (Monday)
Venue: LT 2
Time:
4:30pm to 6:00pm Carol Practice
6:00pm to 7:30pm Combine Practice (Phantom & Lion King)
7:30pm to 10:00pm Movie Sharing (The Phantom of the Opera)

Date: 8 December 2010 (Wednesday)
Venue: LT 2
Time:
4:30pm to 6:00pm Carol Practice
6:00pm to 8:00pm Combine Practice (Phantom & Lion King)

I have a great news here...
Mr. Benny and Dr. Annie Tay, our club advisors, and members from IMU CF may be joining us for the carol practices! ^^

The carol performance will be on 10 December 2010 (Friday). The exact time for the carol performances is still under discussion. Anyway, it will be around 12:00pm to 2:00pm and 8:00pm to 10:00pm.

please remember to memorise the lyrics for 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
Do contact me for further clarification. My email is ghtan0908@yahoo.com.

Let's join us and have fun together! =)

cheers,
guo hong

Jingle Bells Are Ringing!

Hey there! It's been a while now.

Oh well, December is here! Christmas is around the corner!

What we have in store for you would be the Christmas Caroling Event in conjunction to the Christmas celebration.

Following are the details of the practices:
Date: 6th (Monday) & 8th (Wednesday) of December 2010
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Venue: LT 2

The performance is to be held on the 10th of November 2010. However, the time is still under the board's discussion.

That's all for now. For more information, feel free to get in touch with me or any committee member for the matter. Feel free to visit our facebook page; http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=145744345468759 .

Archana =)

November 2010

Hi guys,

Here is the tentative activity calendar for November 2010.
Please refer to this blog or our new facebook group from time to time for latest update.

Songs: Phantom of the Opera and The Lion King

Please memorise the lyrics. =)


Combine Practice are stated in Red.
Those in purple are for Soprano Section Practice.
Those in green are for Alto Section Practice.
Those in dark blue are for Tenor Section Practice.
Those in light blue are for Bass Section Practice.

guo hong

November

hey guys,

following are the details regarding choir practice in November.

Date: 3 November 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Venue: LT 2

Date: 10 November 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Venue: LT 2

Date: 24 November 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Venue: LT 2

Currently we are practising Phantom of the Opera and Lion King. Please bring the scores along.

Remember to attend your section practice before you join these combine practices.

Hope to see ya there. Let's have fun together!


guo hong =P

Woot Woot!

Here is our line up of programmes and activities to last from December 2010 till September 2011.

DECEMBER 2010~ Charity Home Visit & Outing
JANUARY 2011~ Choir Concert
FEBRUARY 2011~ Fund-Raising Event
MARCH 2011~ Basic Theory Classes (for members only)
APRIL 2011~ Fund-Raising Event
MAY 2011~ English Singing Competition
JUNE/JULY 2011~ Choir Music Camp in Cameron Highlands
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2011~ Annual General Meeting + Annual Dinner + Installation of New Committees


Oh well, you can see it for yourself that we're gonna have heck of a time together!


A lil something you guys should know.
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Each and every event above is in the progress in terms of plans and conduct. Besides that, each and every event has it's own Event Manager who is to come up with their mini committee.


NOW, the good news here is that YOU CAN BE PART of THE TEAM in making these events a GREAT SUCCESS! You see these Event Managers are currently hunting for their mini committee members. So, friends, all you've got to do is----> Give these people a nudge, LITERALLY. *wink*



The following are the Event Managers for the respective events:


Charity Home Visit & Outing: Archana Divi & Wellington Lee

Concert: Teoh Wei Jie

Fund-Raising Event: Cheok Wei Siong

Basic Theory Classes: Wan Ming Wai

English Singing Competition: Chan Sze Min & Grace Annabel Tan

Choir Music Camp: Leong Jia Ern


Whatchu waiting for?! Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock! The clock is ticking... Give it a go. I'm sure these people will be more than pleased to have you working hand-in-hand with them.


That's all for now, I suppose!


Will keep you guys updated.


Warm regards,
ARCHANA =)

Regular Choir Practice =)

Well, basically the practise is set at 5.30pm at SR8, every Wednesday. Nevertheless, you will be notified of the practises and if there are any changes in the venue or timing by your respective batch representatives. Which would be:

*Archana Divi (myself)- Psychology Faculty
*Grace- Nursing Faculty
*Wellington & Jones- Medicine Faculty

So, guys! TOMORROW's Wednesday! Meet you'll precisely at 5.30pm, at SR8. Bring along your 'Song of Sanctuary', 'Phantom of The Opera', and 'Lion King' score sheets.

See you there!

*winkwink*

The 2010/2011 Committee Board

President: Tan Guo Hong (P110)
Vice President: Wan Ming Wai (ME110)
Secretary: Chan Sze Min (P110)
Vice Secretary: Leong Jia Ern (ME110)
Treasurer: Cheok Wei Siong (P110)
Publicity Manager: Grace Annabel Tan (NU110)
IT Manager: Archana Divi D/O Chandra Mohan (PS110)
Welfare & Logistics Manager: Wellington Lee (M210)

Section Masters
Soprano: Chong Lee Wun
Alto: Praveena D/O P.K. Asokan
Tenor: Wei Jie
Bass: Jones

Dandelion Choir Concert

Date: 11 july 2010
Venue: 巴生兴华中学 @ Klang

IMU Art Festival 2010

Date: 23/09/2010
Time: Lunch time
Venue: Atrium
Songs: Music is always there with you, Song of Sanctuary

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After performing~ ^^

A glimpse into the future of Choir!

Hi fellow Vivace members! First of all, a very big thank you to those who came for choir practice today in SR8. Our family is certainly growing, and becoming more and more fun! To those who didn't or couldn't attend today, not to worry. Please try your best to attend future practices so you can add to the fun!

On another note, I would like to stress the importance of Section practices. Don't you feel that when we gather every Wednesday evening to practise together, it's more enjoyable if we already know our parts? Then all we have to do is fine tune our pitching, pronunciation, tempo, volume, among other things. Not take up the whole 1 hour just to get to know the song. Then it's something of a waste for all of us to gather at the same place, same time, only to be separated in Sections. Right? Especially in light of the coming-soon Choir concert, we really need to waste as little time together as possible.

Okay! For those of you who didn't get to see my short slideshow on our planned (all are unconfirmed except for Concert) activities for the rest of the year and next year, here is a summary of what I said!

2010

December

Charity Home Visit

- around Christmas time, may be carolling but nothing is set in stone yet

- somebody suggested going to lecturers' homes for carolling..

- In Charge: Archana Divi

2011

January

Choir Concert

- Every choir member is expected to attend & contribute some powderful singing!

- Actually sponsorship is also needed.

- Full list of songs we are performing (and who is performing them) will be released sometime soon

- Organizing President is Wei Jie, any queries can direct to him.

February

Fund Raising

- Set up booth, sell food/shtuffs for $$

- Volunteers needed!

- Please sign up with Wei Siong

March

Basic Music Theory Workshop

- Learn how to read music scores (or at least have a better understanding of them)

- Will be open to Vivace members only, small fee will be applicable (for notes, light refreshments, and maybe a certificate of attendance. Also, will help to increase club funds)

- Ming Wai (that's me, folks!) is organizing this one.

April

Fund Raising v2.0

- We are trying our best to increase club funds so we can enjoy ourselves more!

- More funds = more awesome events for us

- Wei Siong is again in charge of this one.

May

English Singing Competition

- Open to all students of IMU to join! Prizes and food and the usual things will be there.

- Vivace will be organizing, so we need volunteers to be in the Commitee!

- Sze Min welcomes all applications to be in her Organizing Committee, as long as you're a Choir Member!

June/July

Music Camp in Cameron Highlands

- 2D1N or maybe 3D2N depending on how successful fund raising has been, and how much you guys are willing to fork out..

- "Singing together and hot steamboat in low temperature environment' is all you need to know =D

- We may be considering this as a club Annual Trip, but future Trips depend on how successful this one is

- Jia Ern is also looking for Organizing Committee members to help her plan it all out!

August/September

Annual Dinner + Installation of New Committee

- Sit down dinner as one big happy Vivace family in a nice (and reasonably priced) restaurant to commemorate past events and to celebrate the new committee

- Another possible annual event, but we'll see how it goes..

- Outgoing Committee (that's your current committee, peeps!) will be planning this from top to bottom, you just have to come, sit down, eat and have fun.

Club Outings!

On top of all the major/minor events above, we will also be planning Club Outings. These will be very informal events open only to Choir members. What will they be? What will we do? The possibilities seem limitless. From a small scale event like a get-together-and-go-for-dinner to a visit to the Zoo, or maybe even clubbing in Zouk or who knows, we could even go on a day trip to Singapore! Please help us figure out what you want by chatting up Wellington who's in charge of the Outings.

I hope you guys are as excited about the future of Choir as much as I am! By the end of our term, we aim to make you happy about joining choir and not regretting it a single bit! And not to forget, we are going to forge close friendships with each other in the next 12 months or so!

Cya later alligators! After a while crocodiles!

mingwai

PS: If you want to contact any one of the above names (but don't have their contact details), please drop us an email at imuchoir@gmail.com and we'll try to reply you ASAP!

Welcome New Choir Committees

Again, thank you so so so much for attending this choir practise. Great thing is that you guys finally met Mr Benny! Unfortunately he will be leaving IMU in mid December=( we wish him all the best in future.

Hopefully the photos that we took can be uploaded in facebook as soon as possible. I really need to apologize for not uploading the performance video >.< can anyone help me with compressing video? coz the size is too big (aiya...)

As a summary, we had a short (yea quite short la..) ceremony of passing over the positions. Though not everyone was there, i hope that this is a memorable moment to all of you. We (old committees) had said everything that we wanted to share with you guys. Then all of us sang 'The music is always there with you", and completed "song of sanctuary". Great job everyone!

So thats it.
This shall be the last post of mine.
But i will still be in the club la..haha..no worries =)

tonnes of love,
wunwun

Our performance =)

Phew...after practising for days, i would say that we performed fairly well.

Great job everyone.

I'm very proud to have you guys in our club!

I'll get the video from my friend and will try to upload it in facebook.

For those that performed, thank you so much for your time, effort and everything.

For those that could not be there with us, no worries as there are many more activities planned for you guys....so do look forward to them!!

I hope that all of you will continue to enjoy singing.

"Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

*little choir tips of the day

during performance, smile and look at the conductor =)

*little secret of the day

wunwun wants all of you to perform at her medical course phase I graduation.

Haha that's all.

Thank you so much.

Love,

Wunwun

THANK YOU~

hello again choir members,

thanks for coming to the practise yesterday.

i hope that all of you learnt something, made new friends, and had fun!

today we will have another choir practise, where we will combine soprano, alto, tenor, and bass for the song 'the music is always there with you'.

date: 21 September (Tue)

time: 530pm

place: SR8 (4th floor outside audi)

please bring the music sheets with you to the practise!!!!

i'll see you guys there^^

*little choir tips of the day:

partially (not really, just pretend like you are sitting on a chair) squatting position is supposed to help you to reach higher pitch/tone. erm...can strengthen your lower limbs muscle too!

*little secret of the day:

--censored-- is actually black belt in taekwondo and can swim well!!

yeah...get to know our very interesting choir members and you'll be surprise how wonderful all of you are!

thanks.

wunwun

weekly choir practice, welcoming party & AGM

There will be weekly choir practice, welcoming party and also AGM on this coming Wednesday.

Date: 8 September 2010
Time: 5.45pm to 8.00pm
Venue: SR 1

Songs: 'this little light of mine', 'the music is always there with you' and 'you needed me'.
We are going to practise these songs for the performance during art festival.

Food and soft drinks will be provided in conjunction to the welcoming party.


Everyone is welcome to join us!!! =)
Hope to see you there!


p/s: The will be a meeting for all the concert committee after these events.

September Choir Practice

1 September 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 5.45pm to 8.00pm
Venue: SR 1 (1.09)

8 September 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 5.45pm to 8.00pm
Venue: SR 1

22 September 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 5.45pm to 8.00pm
Venue: SR 2 (1.08)

29 September 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 5.45pm to 8.00pm
Venue: SR 2 (1.08)

Everyone is welcome to join us! =)

please refer to our facebook group for the songs that we are going to practise for each practice.

Merdeka performance was great!!

Thanks to the members who joined the performance: Lee Wun (me), Wei Jie, Bao Yin, Mae Yee, Yan Yee, Wei Siong, Guo Hong, Ming Wai, Harry, Chewie.
hmm weird thing i thank myself, but its ok.
yea for your information, we sang 'Sejahtera Malaysia'.
hopefully we can get the video and upload it in facebook or something.

For others, no worries, you guys will still have chance to perform in future, coz we have a whole bunch of events awaiting:

1. recruitment drive at 7th september
2. welcoming party and AGM at 8th september (not confirmed but definitely will have one)
3. arts festival at 23rd september
4. choir RELAXINGLY FUN outing around october or november (after exams)
5. choir concert next year january before imu's got talent.

one more thing is that, as we are having AGM very soon, if anyone of you feel like taking up a position and make your IMU life more interesting, you are most welcome to participate in our events and show your leadership quality!!!

and i hope to see choir club performing during my convocation. i think i'll cry ahahahah....but its cool eh, sing until people feel so touched.

thats all for now. will inform bout the practise time very soon.
thanks.

wunwun

August Choir Practice

5 August 2010
Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: LT 3

12 August 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: LT 3

18 August 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: LT 2

25 August 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Venue: SR 1 (1.07)

Everyone is welcome to join us! =)

July Choir Practice

July choir practices

Date: 7, 14, 21 and 28 July 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Venue: LT 1
Song: to be decided later

Everyone is welcome to join us. =)

Choir Practice

hi guys,

there will be some choir practices in June. Following are the details of the practices.

Date:16 June 2010
Time: 1730-1900
Venue: LT 2

Date: 23 June 2010
Time: 1730-1900
Venue: LT 2

Date: 30 June 2010
Time:1730-1900
Venue: LT 1

Do contact us for further details.
For those who are on holiday, happy holiday!
and those whose exam is just around the corner, Happy Studying!

may you guys be well and happy always o! =)

Next choir practise

The choir practise will resume at the end of June. So everyone enjoy your holiday. Meanwhile if you guys have any interesting ideas as to what we can do together, do share with the committees. For those who haven't sit for exam yet, good luck and all the best. Take care.

Thanks for being with us for all these times.

Reflection

Hi everyone, as the semester is coming to an end very soon, i know that you guys are busy with exam preparations. However, we have booked LT2 on 5th May (wed) at 5pm. So for those of you who wanna perform in small groups (and are free) can come over and do something crazy and creative!! Shin Ying might be joining us as well...she is so awesome you guys should meet her ^^.

just to summarize, for this whole semester, what we had done is:

1. chinese new year performances at the atrium and outside IMU

2. performance for Haiti fund raising

3. recruitment drive performance

4. welcoming party with annual general meeting

5. regular practises about once per week for 1.5 hour each session

6. working out on the T shirt designs and performing group names

7. had committees meetings for several times to manage the club and decide club events

7. learning songs such as:

-Two is better than one

-The music is always there with you

-New year songs-Chun Zhi Chen, Da Di Hui Chun

-Can't help falling in love

-Song of the sanctuary

-You needed me

looking at our progress, we have to work extra hard next semester to learn more songs and improve our singing quality, synchronization and dynamics. so i would need all of you to take the training seriously (and have fun at the same time). and please invite your friends to join us as well-the more the merrier + happier!!

Good luck in exams everyone. hope all of us can excel and get good results. hope to see you guys soon.

wunwun (with ♥)

Practice - 07.04.2010

Haitian Fund Raising Dinner

Date:04.03.2010
Venue: atrium
Time:6pm-8pm
Songs:The Music Always There With You

Choir practice ♥ 31.03.2010

Practice - 31.03.2010

There will be a practice on this Wed (31/03/10), 5pm, LT1.
We are going to do "Can't Help Falling in Love".

Should be a fast one since most of you know the song dy ^^
Hopefully this time can perfect the song and record it down.

Choir Welcoming Party

IMU Lecturer's CNY celebration

Venue: Atrium
Songs: 春之晨， 大地回春

Haitian Fund Raising Dinner

As promised, here's the youtube vid of the song we are going to be performing on the 4th of march 2010, Friday.

venue: atrium

time:6pm-8pm

and the lyrics:

Every morning will soon turn into evening
And springtime will soon turn into fall;
Every memory must fade like a passing parade,
And youth become a time you just recall.
But the good times together seems so magical.
Like music that lasts your whole life through;
When it's ended it never really dies away
'cos the music's always there with you.

Every new day could be a time of harmony
If people could only be in tune;
All the visions you could share, magic castles in the air
Seems to fade away and vanish all too soon;
But the magic you share when you make music
Won't leave you when the time has come to part;
And it feels like you never have to say goodbye,
'cos the music's always there in your heart.

And please do design and submit your choir t-shirt designs.. you can email it to imuchoir@gmail.com.

One more request is for you guys to suggest names for our choir. Just comment here or in the chat box. After all, we'll need it to include in our t-shirt design. Thanks!

The next practice will be on Tuesday, 5pm.. see you there :)

IMU Chinese New Year Event

First Performance in 2010! ^^
Well done!

Date: 11/02/2010
Time: Lunch time
Venue: Atrium
Songs: 春之晨， 大地回春