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When the year has changed, it does not mean that one's busy and routine stops. It is also felt by the youngest member of Choir University of Padjadjaran (UNPAD choir) who is currently responsible for the responsibilities of the 12th Intern Concert Committee to be held in April 2017. Ibn Ashari Fuad from the Faculty of Communications Sciences was trusted as the chief executive of the concert title this time.
The preparation of the concert has entered the fourth week since the initial training held on 16 January. From the practice of honing singing techniques through regular exercises every Monday-Thursday, to the affairs of the Committee, everything is done with the spirit to succeed the concert.
One of the achievements of the Committee was the theme for the internal concert of this time, "Bara Renjana: Harsa, Desire, and hope in harmony". This theme is rated reflecting the spirit of young members of UNPAD choir who smoldering.
Spirit of singing, Spirit of Practice
The Intern concert has its own level of difficulty and challenge, with four sessions presented by four different conductors, about 20 songs will be performed during the concert. Therefore exercise becomes very important considering the preparation time is just a little.
Syafri Syamli Azis, one of the members of the concert team stated, he still has to adapt to the internal concert practice pattern both in terms of time and technical which is slightly different from regular practice that is commonly done every Tuesday and Thursday.
"I did include one that was late back to Jatinangor to follow the exercises. Apparently I have been a lot left behind, so I ask for help from my friends and Akang, Teteh to pursue technical and panic, "said the student from Padang.
He claimed he was still heavily to go back to practice and leave his parents. However, the mandate to be the coordinator of the Concert Logistics Division made him "end the holiday early". Nevertheless, the challenge of professionalism has been waiting ahead and he must always be ready in dealing with the success of "Bara Renjana".
Andhika Abdul Razzaaq, one of the conductors of an Intern concert who holds a popular session of songs said, the practice starts from January to meet the minimum target of practice of approximately three months.
"Preparation of the annual concert is usually about six months, to participate in the competition can even reach one year, so for the Intern concert should start from now," obviously a man who is familiarly called Kang Dhika this.
For her, this year will be the fourth time she has been the conductor at the Intern concert. According to him, each concert team, both internal and annual, has different characteristics each year. There's a passion in the early past downhill, there's a growing spirit of increasing to the end.
"For the current team I hope to keep the spirit in process until the concert later, and hopefully the technical singing and the process of the Committee that is being lived today is increasingly launched," he said.
Hopefully, the two youngest generations of UNPAD choir who are in the Intern Concert team are able to keep the spirit like a coal, as time grows hotter and burning, and will not be easily extinguished!
(Y. I. Wicastya)