Tongue twisters

[scarlettina]

I've spent the afternoon going over music for chorus rehearsal this evening. One of the pieces we're supposed to have memorized for tonight is a three-part piece sung in Nguni, an African (specifically Bantu) dialect with clicks. I know our vocal part and I know most of the words (even the click words), but I keep tripping over the words in the last part (lots of "B"s, "T"s, and "W"s), and I find myself thinking what a good mouth warm-up it would be for acting class (except, of course, that acting class has concluded).

It's a fun piece to sing, but it is, and will continue to be, a challenge.