Aca-weekend and NSC

This weekend was jam-packed with a capella.

First of all, an organization at NYU called Musicians as Healers was having an event on Thursday evening and they asked us to perform. It was during our rehearsal time which was perfect, so halfway through rehearsal we went over and sang for them. We sang four songs, and then we went back to rehearsal and kept rehearsing for about another hour.

Then on Friday we opened for the Macaulay Triplets from Macaulay Honors College. Macaulay Honors College is the honors college for the CUNY schools. The Triplets and the Mixtapes are good friends so we often open for each other a lot, and this was our first time opening for them this year. We were missing a few members of our group, which meant that we had a lot of alternates singing solos. One of our members Jared wasn't there, so I got to sing the "What Goes Around....Comes Around" solo in our Justin Timberlake medley. That was really fun! I sang the solo for our ICCA audition video but this was my first time performing it in front of an audience.

Saturday had no a capella, but I did go to the New Student Cabaret in the afternoon. I'm so thoroughly impressed with the freshman in my program; they're ridiculously talented! I'm just in awe of how good they sound. They blend so well, which I feel is completely different from my year. For my year's choir songs, I felt like we sounded like 31 soloists but this year's freshmen sound like a choir that's been rehearsing together for years, not just two or so months. I'm almost afraid of the freshman just because they're so good, they're definitely going to give everyone else a run for their money.