Do you sing?

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How often does this question come up? Do you know if your friends sing and do you encourage them to be better or do you try to crush them? The heart of the matter reveals a condition of the heart. I ask the question recently to a friend and his was his reply, "it's funny you should ask me if I sing. Yes, I sing first tenor. Forgive me for not disclosing an actual location to you, but I am in the local chorale where I live (actually, the city next to mine). This semester, we are working on two requiems, those of Johannes Brahms and John Rutter. I was also invited to try out for the local opera some months ago, as they are apparently hurting for tenors (which is common just about everywhere). But I just couldn't put in that kind of a commitment. I've gotten too used to having a score in front of me, even when singing solo, unless it's something I've sung a hundred times. I don't like memorization; I like to avoid it when I can.:P" I wanted to continue this discussion and reveal that I started singing as an Alto, and then I became a tenor but I found singing tenor usually required me to sing falsetto and if you know how to sing falsetto you know that means that you are stretching your vocal chords and you certainly can not sing with any real power. I like to be heard when I sing and I like to hear myself sing... Hmmm? Something like that... I know what results that I want but often times I find my results are lacking, I am not getting the desired result that I was trying to achieve for this reason or that mostly I believe for the lack of being trained with the new instrument that has a very unique range... Right away when I sense that the song is going to jump up and if I'm not ready to sing I will drop down and try to go below in order to prevent that crack that happens all to often in the upper levels. So I go down and then it goes down even further almost like going below the foundation well oopps that is a little too low.. Suddenly I have to come up for some fresh air. I wasn't prepared for all the troubles that are associated with a lack of support and understanding. Like life, we all need our aides, be they the scripts synchronized or the legal system working for the best interest of all involved. The problem is that the judicial system is not working and there are many changes that need to be made. Singing can be a distraction to what is going on in life at the time when all around you your world is being attacked. Singing can be a release and singing can reveal a lot about your knowledge of your own presence. I sang solo in the fifth grade as an Alto, from then on, I sang in a choir, so I had plenty of help all around me, then I sang on stage in performing in the show Jesus Christ Super Star and today I sing for the ones that I love... Not that my beloved blood will here me sing, but I will here me sing and my friends can hear me sing. I admit that I'm not the best but to sing solo is not easy if the tools are not the absolute best to begin with, singing acappella can actually be easier when there is nothing to distract you from your intended goals but to sing acappella your audience really needs to be supportive, confidence is such a fragile thing... We have to be careful to give positive feedback to those who are deserving of that quality and make sure that negative forces are curbed from creating more negative energy. The problems in our world stem from these very forces the positive ones being restricted while the negative ones are not only given freedom but also encouraged to steal what is not theirs. We tend to keep rewarding negative influences instead of supporting those positive influences that are extremely rare and important to our global health. The more positive energies that we create the more healthy our community will become. The real negative stress's are those that will cause a community to fail those that impersonate others and are vulgar exercising authority and undue influence over the innocent. Music the key to harmony... Music brings people together, creative artist, performer, and audience... So?