{"id":103342,"date":"2016-09-30T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=103342"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:17","slug":"bates-at-night-merrimanders-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/30\/bates-at-night-merrimanders-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates at Night: Merimanders rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\n\t
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Musical co-director Audrey Burns '17 of Topsham, Maine, encourages the group to listen to each other.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Emma Schiller '18 of Natick, Mass., laughs between bars.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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While sheet music was present at rehearsal, it will be long gone by Oct. 7, the date of the traditional big a cappella concert during Back to Bates.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Musical co-director Soohee Choi '17 of Suwon, South Korea, reviews a vocal part with Sophie Moss-Slavin '18 of New York City.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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On Sept. 29, the Merimanders hold one of their final rehearsals in Olin Arts Center before the big a cappella concert at Back to Bates.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Thursdays after 8:30 p.m. in Olin Arts Center are not the best time and place for quiet study \u2014 but they are perfect for quality a cappella<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Like their fellow groups, the all-female Merimanders added singers through auditions in early September and are now honing their sound and look for the hugely popular Back to Bates concert on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring auditions, we\u2019re looking at both voice and character \u2014 how we blend and interact with each other,\u201d explains musical co-director Audrey Burns \u201917 of Topsham, Maine.<\/p>\n

Rehearsals refine the sound and presentation, the sense that \u201cwe\u2019re all here together, in both character and voice,” she says. “That\u2019s why I kept pointing to my ears. It\u2019s like, \u2018Listen to each other.'”<\/p>\n

Regardless of activity, student groups at Bates have an all-for-one mindset. \u201cIt\u2019s such a positive atmosphere that if I ever have a hard day, this is where I need to be,\u201d Burns says.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a Meri who hasn\u2019t at some point arrived at rehearsal feeling blue and yet, a couple hours later, left feeling great, says Emily Tan ’19 of Lexington, Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just happens, and it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursdays after 8:30 p.m. in Olin Arts Center are not the best time and place for quiet study \u2014 but they are perfect for quality a cappella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":103362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,130,223,11012],"tags":[522,11217,5890],"class_list":["post-103342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-slideshow","category-student-life","tag-a-cappella","tag-bates-at-night","tag-merimanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103342"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103374,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103342\/revisions\/103374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}