Have you ever just started singing a song (one that lots of people know) while sitting on a plane? I think that many of the passengers would join in and enjoy it. I can’t sing well (about 1 octave in upper tenor range - my voice cracks at around F or G above middle C) but I enjoy trying when there are enough others around to drown me out…
Have you ever just started singing a song (one that lots of people know) while sitting on a plane? I think that many of the passengers would join in and enjoy it. I can’t sing well (about 1 octave in upper tenor range - my voice cracks at around F or G above middle C) but I enjoy trying when there are enough others around to drown me out. (My husband is a classically trained bass/baritone with a very strong voice, so if he sings next to me, I am not audible, even to myself. When we went to a concert in Jordan Hall given by Boston-area opera singers to raise money for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, everyone was asked to stand and sing the National Anthem before it started. My husband had often sung it as an a cappella solo at basketball games, so his voice overpowered those of everyone around us on one of the balconies. I was amused to see that most of the people sitting near us were staring at him as he sang. Once when were in the center of the 5th row at a concert given by Bryn Terfel in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, there was a sing-along of “The Road to Tipperary”. After the concert we waited in line to talk to Bryn and he told my husband that he could hear him singing over the crowd and thought that he was Sanford Sylvan.)
One of my favorite childhood memories is of group singing during school bus rides to Walden Pond (yes, the one where HDT lived for almost 2 years) for swimming lessons. Most of us were children of WWII veterans, so we used to sing all of the service songs, as well as patriotic ones and oldies like “You are my Sunshine”. Our parents were amused and pleased that my sister and I learned those songs on the way to our swimming classes.
Have you ever just started singing a song (one that lots of people know) while sitting on a plane? I think that many of the passengers would join in and enjoy it. I can’t sing well (about 1 octave in upper tenor range - my voice cracks at around F or G above middle C) but I enjoy trying when there are enough others around to drown me out. (My husband is a classically trained bass/baritone with a very strong voice, so if he sings next to me, I am not audible, even to myself. When we went to a concert in Jordan Hall given by Boston-area opera singers to raise money for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, everyone was asked to stand and sing the National Anthem before it started. My husband had often sung it as an a cappella solo at basketball games, so his voice overpowered those of everyone around us on one of the balconies. I was amused to see that most of the people sitting near us were staring at him as he sang. Once when were in the center of the 5th row at a concert given by Bryn Terfel in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, there was a sing-along of “The Road to Tipperary”. After the concert we waited in line to talk to Bryn and he told my husband that he could hear him singing over the crowd and thought that he was Sanford Sylvan.)
One of my favorite childhood memories is of group singing during school bus rides to Walden Pond (yes, the one where HDT lived for almost 2 years) for swimming lessons. Most of us were children of WWII veterans, so we used to sing all of the service songs, as well as patriotic ones and oldies like “You are my Sunshine”. Our parents were amused and pleased that my sister and I learned those songs on the way to our swimming classes.
No. I’ve not started singing on a flight or in a train car tho tempted because it felt so gloomy! We must!