You are a small group, but what you lack in numbers you make up for in dedication.  You faithfully practice each week (even fast sunday!) and share your talents about once a month.  No one can say you don’t try.

But here is the thing:  If there are only 12 of you, an arrangment with 8 parts doesnt work.  ‘Cause then that lone 1st alto thinks she has to sing twice as loud, which just makes her sound twice as loud.  And that bass gentleman you arbitrarily assigned to sing tenor?  He isn’t a tenor. So he just reaches for every note, usually at those critical times when he and the other guy (the actual tenor) are the only ones singing.

While I am on the topic, why is every hymn you sing arranged like this (unless you can find an 8-part arrangment): 

First verse, everyone in Unison
Second verse, 1st half men only (melody)
                        2nd half women only (melody)
Third verse, everyone, SATB

I wonder what would happen if you were to sing the hymn strait through, as written.  Or if the women sang the 1st half of the second verse first instead of the men.  Would the choir raise a mutiny?  No, no one wants to see that.

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