{"id":86,"date":"2010-05-26T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-06-14T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:54:52","slug":"vocalizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/vocalizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocalizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do enjoy singing.<\/p>\n<p>This likely started when I discovered music as a youngster.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m sure it developed because of a great Youth Choir experience at Severn Baptist Church with a great married couple, Al &amp; Margaret Hunter, as director and pianist.\u00a0 Such dedicated volunteers and talented musicians.\u00a0 Mr. Hunter would take time off from work in the summers to take the Youth Choir &#8220;On Tour&#8221; usually for a week visiting and singing for Churches as far away as South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Since I am often behind the controls while engineering recording sessions, I don&#8217;t often get a chance to sing on recordings.\u00a0 I have done a few tracks here and there with the assistance of &#8220;deputized&#8221; engineers with brief training (&#8220;Sit here, push this button to start, this button to stop, this to start over&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Recently, we&#8217;ve been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amorealta.com\">Amore Alta<\/a> studio working on new tracks for &#8220;OPERATION LET THE FIRE FALL (<a href=\"https:\/\/oltff.com\/\">OLTFF<\/a>).&#8221;\u00a0 This project is preparing liturgical music to be distributed to Catholic military chaplains.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of being included in the vocal ensemble and having all the technical details handled by Paul Mercer, a talented engineer (and recent convert).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/OLTFF-VocalSesssion.png\" alt=\"OLTFF Vocal Session\" width=\"393\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/djp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/OLTFF-VocalSesssion.png 655w, https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/djp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/OLTFF-VocalSesssion-420x285.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There&#8217;s a real satisfaction that comes from the blending of different human voices, either in unison or singing rich harmonies, especially when it&#8217;s done all for the glory of God.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Cecilia\">St. Cecilia<\/a>, ora pro nobis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do enjoy singing. This likely started when I discovered music as a youngster.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m sure it developed because of a great Youth Choir experience at Severn Baptist Church with a great married couple, Al &amp; Margaret Hunter, as director and pianist.\u00a0 Such dedicated volunteers and talented musicians.\u00a0 Mr. Hunter would take time off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","tag-recording","tag-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}