Personal Narrative: The Small Ensemble

Since the day I remember I have always loved to sing. Everything that dealt with singing I enjoyed. In school I loved chorus and has been my favorite class I have taken. Learning new music and how to read and write it made me feel like it was possible to write my own song. In my middle school, there was a honors chorus class called the “Small Ensemble” The Small Ensemble was a small and privileged class, they got the opportunity to go participate in school plays, Christmas parades, Christmas caroling, and competitions such as, All-County and All-State. To be considered into this honors class, students had to audition for a seat in the class. When I heard there were going to be auditions I was completely excited and so determined to audition.
I dreaded auditioning and felt embarrassed that I had not made it. I stopped enjoying my chorus class and most of the time just wanted it to end. The next year came along and I felt as if I was not fit to be in chorus and I was not going to progress. But my parents encouraged me to take it, so I took the class. I really enjoyed myself and learned even if I did not make it into Small Ensemble. I started to enhance my singing by not just singing for school but by singing with my church's worship band. In the worship band I learned to perform and project my voice. Being taught different things from these activities I helped my worship band by teaching them how to read notes instead of just chords. I was content with all of what I learned and I was looking forward to what else I could bring to both my school chorus and worship band. At the end of the year, there were auditions for Small Ensemble for the next year. I did not think of trying out but my music director encouraged me to try out again. The reason why I wanted to join this time was so I could help strength the weakness of my chorus class and worship