[English] Voice choir

[Jenny Gilbert]

Thankyou everyone for your contributions - I will eventually build some of
this shared wisdom into my wiki for future referenceJ 

As for the competition yes traditionally an in house comp for the 13 Mercy
Schools in Victoria - sorry J 

 

Jenny Gilbert

 

 

 

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[mailto:english-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Reynolds, Gail G
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 5:10 PM
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I'd never encountered such a thing.  A new English week activity on the list
-- looks like something our students could run with (even though we are not
eligible for the competition I assume)!

Thanks

Gail

 

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From: english-bounces at edulists.com.au [english-bounces at edulists.com.au] on
behalf of Jill Morgan [jmorgan at loreto.vic.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 2:10 PM
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Something from Under Milkwood?

 

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[mailto:english-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Deb Cumming
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 11:55 AM
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We used to do this many years ago as part of our English/Drama programme -
through the Trinity College exam system (from memory) - that may be a place
to start

Deb 

 

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[mailto:english-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Caruso, Greta
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 11:24 AM
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HI Jenny, 

 

This is really big in Malaysia and Singapore. I saw a competition and it was
wonderful. I can't remember what it was called. Choral recitation maybe. 

Greta

 

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[mailto:english-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jenny Gilbert
Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:49 PM
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Subject: [English] Voice choir

 

Hi everyone

Last year I was a member of the audience for the Frayne Speech Festival - an
annual Mercy schools event. One of the competitions was Voice Choir - where
students recite poetry in a team of 18-20 and do it in such a way that they
use voice and action to contribute to meaning, It was both fascinating and
the better teams were very clever - well choreographed etc. 

I am after any resources I can get my hands on for the teacher coordinating
our first ever team and suggestions for poems to be used. Last year it was
Kenneth Slessor's night ride. I cannot recall the free choice pieces but
they were all quite lengthy and allowed for lots of variation in tone,
pitch, pace etc as well as physical movement of the choir itself to convey
meaning. If you have any weblinks that would be great too - anything I
search tends to throw up musical choir - which is not what I am after. 

Can you help? If not you someone in your network?

Thanks in advance

 

Jenny Gilbert

 

Teacher  St Joseph's College Mildura

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