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Fun Facts Home Recordings

Despite Circuit Breaker restrictions, 149 choristers from the Singapore Symphony Chorus, Youth and Children’s Choir, and musicians from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra continued to create music in a virtual choir project. Here’s a peek into how the choruses recorded and put together Dick Lee’s We Will Get There!

1. Arrangement of We Will Get There Music Arranger, Gabriel Hoe, who is also the Children’s Choir’s rehearsal pianist, re-arranged the original score of We Will Get There for choir, with multiple voice parts.

Arrangers are typically not involved in the performance of their own pieces, but Gabriel performed his own piano arrangement for this project!

2. Creation of the playback track Playback tracks of piano and vocal accompaniments with “beeps” were created for musicians and choristers to listen to while recording, so that everyone’s singing and recordings would be synchronised!

3. Creation of a recording guide In order for the submitted videos to look cohesive, the video team and choral managers created a recording guide for choristers to adhere to while recording.

4. Recording! The musicians and choristers had to get creative when recording themselves at home. Spot them singing from their beds, and using household objects such as books and step ladders to prop their cameras!

5. Video Editing After receiving everyone’s video and audio submissions, the sound engineers and video editors worked hard to piece everything together.

Many rounds of editing and tidying up later, the final video was created!

Catch the full video of We Will Get There by the Singapore Symphony Choruses here!