American Folk Rhapsody

[ALEXDABEST1001]

omg thats my birthday heheh :)

[soldierinthesand]

Cool. I have to learn to play the piano part for some fourth graders.

[batgirl21228]

um...toatally unrelated comment. who is the director?

[MrSonjay1]

im in elementry and i have to sing this with high school i had to try out for it i mad honors chourus!

[rattypajamas]

@MrSonjay1 Congratulations! That is something to be very proud of.

[nbbfan1429]

omg. the chorus im in is gonna sing this for our spring concert. lol

[omnumnum240]

lol i sang this song in my 6th grade choir and my sounded kinda better lol

[xXxMandaBananaxXx]

simply city is 2 fastt...im singing this 4 chorus!!!

[jonasbroluver1996]

lol were doing this for contest and the guys always get the oh lordy part wrong lol but this is so much better then ours, we cant get the to be simple part lol

[iluburmom]

wow, that was good. im in advanced chior at school. Im a soprano 1. last night i just sang this exact song last night at southern florida college last night. very catchy. some sopranos on there were a lil flat and altos cam in about a quarter beat to early on one part. but otherwise pretty good. just make sure you have round vowels and dont force notes out. but yes a very challengng song.. we had 20 sop1's and 30 sop 2's 10 tenor ones and 15 tenor twos, 19 bases, 23 alto ones and 21 alto twos

[rattypajamas]

@iluburmom, thank you so much for your comment.

[roahan05]

holy crap yall have a HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE group!!! my eight grade class song this we only have like 57 students we just got done singing it today and a local thing yall did ok, huge group must be hard for yall conductor to keep track of everyone lol

[rattypajamas]

This is five different small schools combined into a junior high Superconference. WACO school choir is actually pretty small.

[VickyEast98]

@rattypajamas Tall vowels, you must drop your jaw!! no smiling!! and no "r's" it come off to the audience as arg! like a pirate

[aybabyitsrach]

my choir is singing this at our spring concert. we always make jokes about "so she will take a bite of me" during choir we made like dance/hand moves for the whole song. and clapping during pick o' bale of cotton. my choir has like 14 people in it, small school. OH LORDY! [: okaybye.

[mydog518]

your "To Be Simple" part seems kind of fast compared to my choir. Oh where are the slaps and claps during the "Pick A Bail of Cotton"?

[rattypajamas]

This may have been a different arrangement.

[Mayawazumi]

I agree. Simple City was too fast, and it wouldve been a bit more lively in the other two songs

[LuminolBlue]

Lovely performance, RP.

[rattypajamas]

Yes, it was really nice.

[LuminolBlue]

Where is Willie in that group?

[rattypajamas]

Willie is almost in the center. there are two blonde boys in the center, one in front of the other-Willie is the blonde in back. Go straight down from the left side of our WACO logo. The students from WACO wore look alike black shirts with the names of the WACO chorus members on the back.

[LuminolBlue]

Nope, still can't see where he is. It's OK. :D

-Am

[rattypajamas]

If you watch the video "We Go Together", which I posted at the same time as this video, Willie is easier to see. "We Go Together" was WACO's special that night.

[LuminolBlue]

Cool. Thank you. :)

[rattypajamas]

or I could just send you a DVD. "Willie" converted the camera files to DVD format on his computer. You can see the people a little bit better (but not much) on the television DVD.