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Dec. 5th, 2009 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Things:
- Part One of the Bainbridge Chorale Christmas Concert is tonight! Whee! (And part two is tomorrow afternoon.) I think it's going to be a good show - we're doing some fun music and we always get a good turn out for the Christmas concert. There's going to be carol singing at the end, too, which should be lots of fun. We have a brass quintet and an organ and that's going to make the carols awesome. La familia is coming tonight, and people I know from the library and church are coming tomorrow. I hope they enjoy it.
- Rehearsal last night seemed like the longest rehearsal ever. It was only our second time this session practicing in the actual performance space and with all the instruments (rather than just a piano) and it just went on and on forever. I mean, it was a good rehearsal and, honestly, I enjoy rehearsing music a little bit more than performing it (just a little), but still.
Last night was also the first rehearsal with the actual risers in place, during which we did the thing we always do once the risers are up, which is realize that we do not actually fit into the space the way that we thought we would. That is stressful but also a little bit fun, in a mean-spirited kind of way. See, the first sopranos are really loosey-goosey about where we sit. We know who's in our section, we sit in that section, everything's fine. The second sopranos, on the other hand, are apparently really particular about where they sit and who they sit next to, even though we should all know by now that the way we're arranged in rehearsal is never going to be the way we're arranged when we perform. So it's kinda fun to stand a row back and watch them desperately try to shuffle themselves the way they want to stand in a space that doesn't allow it. (I ended up right smack against the bass section this time, which is awesome. I like being right next to another voice-part than my own.)
- In non-choir-related news, I have a new podcast thing I have been listening to. It is the Cthulhu podcast and it is really pretty awesome. As the name implies, they do readings of Lovecraft stories, which is neat, but they also read weird bits of history from the 1920's and play music from that period. And occasionally they read stories by contemporaries of Lovecraft, which is pretty nifty. Yesterday, I listened to The Yellow Sign and The Beast With Five Fingers, both of which were read very well. Mostly, I'm just delighted that there are people out there who apparently really want to read The King in Yellow to me. (I should see if they've done The Repairer of Reputations...)
- I don't have to work this weekend! I'm terribly pleased about that. Tomorrow is going to be full of church and choir but today, I am free till call at 6 o'clock. Hurrah!
- Part One of the Bainbridge Chorale Christmas Concert is tonight! Whee! (And part two is tomorrow afternoon.) I think it's going to be a good show - we're doing some fun music and we always get a good turn out for the Christmas concert. There's going to be carol singing at the end, too, which should be lots of fun. We have a brass quintet and an organ and that's going to make the carols awesome. La familia is coming tonight, and people I know from the library and church are coming tomorrow. I hope they enjoy it.
- Rehearsal last night seemed like the longest rehearsal ever. It was only our second time this session practicing in the actual performance space and with all the instruments (rather than just a piano) and it just went on and on forever. I mean, it was a good rehearsal and, honestly, I enjoy rehearsing music a little bit more than performing it (just a little), but still.
Last night was also the first rehearsal with the actual risers in place, during which we did the thing we always do once the risers are up, which is realize that we do not actually fit into the space the way that we thought we would. That is stressful but also a little bit fun, in a mean-spirited kind of way. See, the first sopranos are really loosey-goosey about where we sit. We know who's in our section, we sit in that section, everything's fine. The second sopranos, on the other hand, are apparently really particular about where they sit and who they sit next to, even though we should all know by now that the way we're arranged in rehearsal is never going to be the way we're arranged when we perform. So it's kinda fun to stand a row back and watch them desperately try to shuffle themselves the way they want to stand in a space that doesn't allow it. (I ended up right smack against the bass section this time, which is awesome. I like being right next to another voice-part than my own.)
- In non-choir-related news, I have a new podcast thing I have been listening to. It is the Cthulhu podcast and it is really pretty awesome. As the name implies, they do readings of Lovecraft stories, which is neat, but they also read weird bits of history from the 1920's and play music from that period. And occasionally they read stories by contemporaries of Lovecraft, which is pretty nifty. Yesterday, I listened to The Yellow Sign and The Beast With Five Fingers, both of which were read very well. Mostly, I'm just delighted that there are people out there who apparently really want to read The King in Yellow to me. (I should see if they've done The Repairer of Reputations...)
- I don't have to work this weekend! I'm terribly pleased about that. Tomorrow is going to be full of church and choir but today, I am free till call at 6 o'clock. Hurrah!