Chamber Choir in Atlanta
The Princeton Chamber Choir took a weekend trip to Atlanta, Georgia for the National Collegiate Choral Organization’s 10th Biennial Conference, “Coming Home,” hosted by Morehouse College on Nov. 11, 2023! We sang Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine, an eight-movement piece for double SMATBB choir that the Chamber Choir has been preparing since three years before I arrived on Princeton campus. I am so grateful that I got to sing this piece as a freshman because the more time I spent with the work in and out of rehearsals, the more I learned that some people do not have the opportunity to perform this massive monster of a piece. The biggest challenge was the French pronunciation for me, and the chromatic, unpredictable and at times jazzy melodies that weave in and out of each other certainly made it more challenging. But it was a fun challenge, and I teared up with many others during the final chord at the performance.
