I sang at LES with BYU Men's Chorus. Even with a group of that quality/training, it's impossible to hear & hard to do

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Sep 10, 2024
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America the Beautiful, as sung by the missionaries.

Viva Campeche

Sep 9, 2:24pm

Hmmmm...A for effort.

Hawk in the 303

Sep 9, 2:25pm

Reminds me of that scene in Red Dawn...

momowagon

Sep 9, 2:33pm

Singing a cappella in a football stadium is tough, haha. Cool moment for them

RGGeemer

Sep 9, 2:43pm

I’m in that group of blue on the other side of the missionaries directly in your

BigD Coug

Sep 9, 2:44pm

RE: America the Beautiful, as sung by the missionaries.

deliciousmocha

Sep 9, 2:47pm

my son in law and I went to the game. his sister is in that mission, so he got to see her and give her a quick hug

byujag

Sep 9, 3:09pm

Woof, that was brutal

Loafer

Sep 9, 3:45pm

Yeah. Can we not agree to stuff like this?

momowagon

Sep 9, 4:14pm

yeesh, they're not even in tune.

runnincoug

Sep 9, 8:13pm

The elders spontaneously transposed when they realized how high the notes were.

Hawk in the 303

Sep 10, 10:01am

Why did they sing at all? Or maybe pick out 10 good singers and mic them?

momowagon

Sep 10, 12:10pm

yep. If you're going to do it, make a good impression.

runnincoug

Sep 10, 12:11pm

It's hard to sing in an open-air stadium like that a cappella. You can't hear

RGGeemer

Sep 10, 1:18pm

can be done with feedback speakers/earpieces to the singers. See here...

runnincoug

Sep 10, 1:26pm

You think the mission is going to provide earpieces to their missionary choir?

RGGeemer

Sep 10, 1:34pm

the discussion thread was about picking out the best singers only ...

runnincoug

Sep 10, 1:41pm

The mic he was referring to was so that only they could be heard. I don't think

RGGeemer

Sep 10, 1:48pm

I also would not be surprised if that vocal point performance was pre-recorded

RGGeemer

Sep 10, 1:36pm

In fact, I'm fairly certain it was.

RGGeemer

Sep 10, 1:38pm

perhaps so. In which case, if it's impossible, don't have the missionaries sing

runnincoug

Sep 10, 2:01pm

I sang at LES with BYU Men's Chorus. Even with a group of that quality/training, it's impossible to hear & hard to do

byujag

Sep 10, 1:26pm

Yeah, usually you have 5-10% of the missionaries who were in choir in HS, maybe

Hawk in the 303

Sep 10, 5:12pm

It was great

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