"when the party’s over"
OPB: Billie Eilish
Solo: Sara Mistler
Arr: Andrew Richardson and Kayla Mauk
Audio and Video Editing: Andrew Richardson
Like many other musical organizations on SUNY Potsdam's campus, our typical semesterly activities were halted by COVID-19. We were forced to make several difficult decisions, including canceling our 13th Annual Invitational. We also had to answer the million-dollar question: how exactly we wanted to proceed for the remainder of the semester? We knew that we didn’t want to stop collaborating all together, so we brainstormed a variety of ways we could still be productive and share our music with the Potsdam community and beyond. Some of the ways we did this include creating the virtual a cappella project that you see here, utilizing various social media platforms such as Instagram and Tiktok to share short excerpts of our members, and continuing to rehearse independently using rehearsal tracks and platforms such as ZOOM and FaceTime to have weekly check-up meetings. These methods allowed us to share our music with our fans and continue to improve on our own so that we are more prepared when we can finally sing together again. We are deeply saddened by the cancellation of the ICCA competition and our Invitational this year. However, these are challenging times, and we all understand the sacrifices that needed to be made to ensure the overall well-being of our society. We are so glad that we got to still continue to make music in this way. Here is our virtual a cappella project, a song that would have been performed at our 13th Annual Invitational.
