Thursday was our second day of practice in Poland. Our tongues got a workout with unfamiliar blends of /sh/ch/ and /v/sh/r/ and /t/k/ny/. With patient, precise, and persistent coaching, our pronunciation is gradually improving. Lloyd’s gentle rebukes simultaneously humor and motivate us to not hear the same comments again – comments such as…
- Does that make sense? Of course it does!
- See? That sounds nice. Why didn’t you do that before?
- What would you do differently if you could do it again?
- To him that knoweth to do _____, and doeth it not, to him it is _____.
Following are some statistics of the group and our music.
We have assembled from various places:
Poland: 6
Florida: 1
Georgia: 2
New York: 1
North Carolina: 1
Ohio: 8
Ontario: 4
Oregon: 3
Pennsylvania: 10
West Virginia: 1
Those who have sung with Hope Singers previous years: 4 men and 8 ladies. For 2 ladies, this is the 5th time on tour.
Number of women: 19
Average age of women: 32
Median age of women: 28
Number of men: 18
Average age of men: 26
Median age of men: 24
Age range of singers: 15 to 75
Variety of languages to sing:
- Polish
- English
- Russian
- German
- Bemba (of Zambia)
- Zulu (of South Africa)
- Hebrew
Thank you for your interest in Hope Singers.~ Esther Bean