Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
Speaker 1: in his time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on kay what the one you trust? And today, Well,
Speaker 1: we've got some of my favorite people here. We got
Speaker 1: the Martinsvill High School choir and miss jam But Miss
Speaker 1: Jann doesn't want talk. She's got like laryngitis or some
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, you know, airborne illness, and it's preventing
Speaker 1: her from saying anything when the microphone is open. So
Speaker 1: we have here with this here, we have Noah Ramirez,
Speaker 1: we have Nanny. How can I see? We also have
Speaker 1: Liberty Share. I'm not familiar with that. No, we're in
Speaker 1: our house half the time. Gabby Burke is with us
Speaker 1: here today too, and we have a big concert coming
Speaker 1: up on Tuesday, October twenty second, seven pm.
Speaker 2: Noah, how much has it got to cost to get
Speaker 2: into this thing? Free to show up, just got to
Speaker 2: show up.
Speaker 1: There you go, man, I have my own heart, JAMII,
Speaker 1: bring the family, pack up the neighbors. We'll plack the
Speaker 1: joint there and we're gonna have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: here too. Now, we've got a lot of great songs
Speaker 1: in here. And I was talking to some of the
Speaker 1: youngsters just beforehand about some of the songs that are
Speaker 1: going to be performed, and you told me you liked
Speaker 1: one by a fellow by the name of Barry Manilow.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're performing Copa Cabana by Barry Manilow. It is
Speaker 3: really awesome. We got free tickets to see him in August,
Speaker 3: and whenever we went to see him, our teacher wound
Speaker 3: up speaking to his stage manager and some people, and
Speaker 3: one of his composers arranged a song for us. So
Speaker 3: our jazz choir is doing an acapella. We've got some
Speaker 3: awesome percussionists. It's just it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you're gonna do this acapella?
Speaker 3: Yes, everything the jazz choir performs is acapella.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, then this is going to have to be
Speaker 1: a musk because that thing was originally composed for a
Speaker 1: big time you know orchestra that you'd have in a
Speaker 1: nightclub back in the forties and fifties, that type of style.
Speaker 1: The song itself wasn't composed into the seventies, but it
Speaker 1: was in that style. So to pull that off acapella,
Speaker 1: you must guys been working day and night on this.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 2: What's one of your favorites or not.
Speaker 4: Autumn Leaves. It's a jazz standard and it's really since
Speaker 4: it's a cappella it's it's really cool to like sing with.
Speaker 1: Everyone and Liberty, you said you like that too, and
Speaker 1: what draws you to it?
Speaker 5: Well, I've always listened to that song most of my life,
Speaker 5: so I'm a huge jazz lover. It was sang by
Speaker 5: Ela Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra and that's what drawn me
Speaker 5: to Autumn Leaves and how we sing it in general.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good. Now, Noah, you got a song that
Speaker 2: you really like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the Monsom Road James Taylor. Huh, the guys
Speaker 6: are singing it this year?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Good Now, everybody I hope is familiar with JT. He's
Speaker 1: a living legend in his own spare time and mine too.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you the guy, I can
Speaker 1: write a song and I can't wait to hear how
Speaker 1: this comes out with the choir.
Speaker 2: Now, as far as being with the choir, how long
Speaker 2: you been with them?
Speaker 3: This is my seventh year.
Speaker 1: Seventh year. Yeah, so you're kind of like the veteran one.
Speaker 3: Of them, one of them.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of us.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about you?
Speaker 4: This is my fifth year, fifth.
Speaker 2: Year, you keep trying you catch up with her? What
Speaker 2: about you?
Speaker 5: I've been doing it like just high school or middle school,
Speaker 5: or I've been doing it since I was in elementary. Oh,
Speaker 5: and I did throughout elementary and middle school and high school.
Speaker 1: Noah started in seventh grade year. All right, good, So
Speaker 1: you guys got a little bit of experience under the
Speaker 1: belt here and ready to just have yourself a great time.
Speaker 1: Now when we get ready for one of these things,
Speaker 1: the rehearsals have just got to be, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of fun, but then you got to kind of bear
Speaker 1: down toward the end, and then once you get on
Speaker 1: stage and watch the payoff, it's gotta be great. What
Speaker 1: about it for you? What's the most fun part in preparation?
Speaker 4: Oh, the most fun part I think whenever, like at
Speaker 4: least in jazz, whenever the songs start to actually come together,
Speaker 4: because it takes a little bit for us to like
Speaker 4: everyone learn their part individually, but as soon as we
Speaker 4: get all together and people like it starts locking in.
Speaker 4: It's like I remember there was a day where we
Speaker 4: were saying autumn leaves and it was just different, Like
Speaker 4: you can just feel that we'd finally gotten it, that
Speaker 4: it was like that it sounded.
Speaker 1: Great a moment. Anthy said, yeah, what about you?
Speaker 3: I love the aha moment, And I just love our group.
Speaker 3: I think it's a really special group, and it's a
Speaker 3: really kind of a privilege. You get to work with
Speaker 3: so many really talented musicians, so I think every rehearsal
Speaker 3: is really special. I think they handle their singing with
Speaker 3: a level of seriousness and it helps us produce a really,
Speaker 3: really great sound.
Speaker 2: Now this is something else when you get the song.
Speaker 1: Presented to you and you got to work on how
Speaker 1: you're gonna sound, and then all of a sudden everybody
Speaker 1: starts coming together. Well, we were talking about that aha moment.
Speaker 1: How hard is it to keep the concentration though?
Speaker 6: Oh well, this just depends on where you're at sitting
Speaker 6: in the choir, Like, if you're in the middle of
Speaker 6: your section, it's kind of easy, but if you're toward
Speaker 6: the outside of another part, it's a little hard. Because
Speaker 6: for me personally, I can sing ten or two embarratts
Speaker 6: on one, so if I'm next to the ten or
Speaker 6: two sometimes I might accidentally flip to them, so it
Speaker 6: can get confusing. But it just depends on where you're sitting.
Speaker 1: What you're saying is you got a blendable talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with that. Nobody putting it all together
Speaker 1: with what are your favorite parts of this and what
Speaker 1: are your biggest challenges?
Speaker 5: When you maybe this is a bit taboo obviously, but
Speaker 5: you take a moment to see the kids around you
Speaker 5: as we all sing our favorite songs. You can sense
Speaker 5: the sense of passion and their voices and their eyes
Speaker 5: light up whenever they sing Praise's Name, which is what
Speaker 5: we're all singing. It's a very upbeat gospel related song
Speaker 5: that most of everyone loves. Or whenever we seen Celtic
Speaker 5: Dance and jazz choir, you sense that sense of like
Speaker 5: I really want to dance to this or I'm very
Speaker 5: happy to be here. That's my favorite part of choir.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Thanks once again.
Speaker 1: This will be coming up on Tuesday, October twenty second
Speaker 1: at seven pm and the cost is absolutely free. That
Speaker 1: will be at the Fine Arts Center. Let's pack the
Speaker 1: place that. I don't know if you youngsters realize how
Speaker 1: good you got it, because there are a lot of
Speaker 1: schools that don't have this. We know, yeah you do.
Speaker 5: It's amazing to look up and you see all the
Speaker 5: things that are used for sound grouping and things like that.
Speaker 5: It's just amazing. As a kid, I would just look
Speaker 5: up and I just don't even pay attention to a
Speaker 5: choir or anything. I just look up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was like, no, it was like a palace as
Speaker 5: like a five year old kid.
Speaker 1: Wow. And you know a lot of colleges don't have
Speaker 1: really what what she got there? You kind of blest,
Speaker 1: so you know, take it and run with it to.
Speaker 5: Be and the catwalks are amazing to see and you
Speaker 5: just kind of look down.
Speaker 2: You're like, that's pretty high up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wellah well yeah, that's why mister Sathley does all the
Speaker 1: running around up there.
Speaker 2: He does a lot of it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Now, when it came to deciding that, you know,
Speaker 1: music might have been your calling, how did you know?
Speaker 2: Is it something you were born with? You think?
Speaker 3: I grew up singing in church every Sunday, and whenever
Speaker 3: I was younger, I started singing in church and I
Speaker 3: wound up doing one or two shows with CMT. I
Speaker 3: started doing piano lessons and I just kind of took
Speaker 3: it and ran with it. I did different choirs as
Speaker 3: a kid and I just never stopped.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's good. How about you know?
Speaker 6: Wow? So I used to wanted to be a drummer
Speaker 6: when I was younger, and so like, I kind of
Speaker 6: just wound up having a musical talent. And I didn't
Speaker 6: really know that I could sing until seventh grade when
Speaker 6: I accidentally got put.
Speaker 7: In a choir.
Speaker 3: How do you.
Speaker 2: I'm dying to hear that.
Speaker 7: I have no idea that I guess the office people
Speaker 7: just accidentally put me in a choir and I was
Speaker 7: Me and my friend Hayes were in the female choir
Speaker 7: because they they messed up so bad with the schedules,
Speaker 7: but they just wound up putting us back in the
Speaker 7: male choir and then just got on going.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was pretty fun because that was the first
Speaker 6: year of for our new teacher, Miss Shaw, and she
Speaker 6: was a really good teacher. She made maybe just want
Speaker 6: to stay.
Speaker 2: What about you? What was your mobile? What grew you too?
Speaker 2: Do want it?
Speaker 1: Sank?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Well, my entire family is like really involved in music,
Speaker 4: so I don't know. I remember, like just from a
Speaker 4: very young age, I would sing with my sisters all
Speaker 4: the time, and then around like fourth or fifth grade,
Speaker 4: I joined like the Bardicla Youth choir that we had
Speaker 4: for a couple of years. I think Gabby was in
Speaker 4: it too, So like doing things like that was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I was a part of too in
Speaker 5: Wilson Elementary.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. So it's like from a very young age,
Speaker 4: I've been.
Speaker 1: Fold unities choirs.
Speaker 2: You did the same thing.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was called select choir where we used to audition,
Speaker 5: and I remember doing those auditions growing up. But that's
Speaker 5: not how I started into singing. It was when I
Speaker 5: first watched The Music Man when I was two to
Speaker 5: three years old, and I used to dance along with them.
Speaker 5: I used to know the choreography and it was one
Speaker 5: of my favorite movies of all time. I watched that
Speaker 5: thing over and over and that's how it started.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna believe this. Nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: I was the Music Man, Harold Hill, Professor theory, think method,
Speaker 1: think the minuet and g there you go, Yeah, there
Speaker 1: it goes, there you go. But mayn alive this is
Speaker 1: this is really going to be a nice show. Bartletsville
Speaker 1: High School Choir. It's going to be at the Fine
Speaker 1: Arts Center, beautiful, beautiful surrounding and you can't beat the price.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely free. This will be on Tuesday, October twenty
Speaker 1: second at seven pm, and you don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: It's really going to be a lot of fun. How
Speaker 1: many how many people are in the jazz choir?
Speaker 2: You think is twenty four?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Twenty four?
Speaker 5: Okay, pretty good amount of people for.
Speaker 4: A jazz fire.
Speaker 1: I was going to say sometimes they keep that around,
Speaker 1: you know, twelve eighteen or something like that in some cases.
Speaker 1: But if you got twenty four, that's a lot. That's
Speaker 1: a load of talent up on one stage. My goodness.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you all for being here with
Speaker 1: us today, and I want to wish you the best
Speaker 1: of luck on this too, because you know it's it's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun and it's going to.
Speaker 2: Be a great way to get some exposure as well.
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