darchildre | (no subject)

Choir rehearsal was excellent. I always enjoy the first rehearsal after a break - everything is new and exciting and we all have so much energy. The music is pretty good this time, too - several spirituals and folk songs, which I always enjoy doing. We are also doing two pieces from West Side Story, though, which I'm a little less sanguine about. I'll admit that I don't really like singing show tunes as chorale numbers, but I can live with them, I guess. And the arrangement of Somewhere is really very nice. But we're doing America, too and, well. I don't know. I feel awkward about it. Outside of the context of the play, it feels a little offensive. Especially since the Bainbridge Chorale is, with the exception of I think three people, very incredibly white. And, okay, it's not like the song isn't often sung by white people when the play is being performed and I don't really know how that's better. And I don't know why this makes me feel uncomfortable, but I feel pretty much perfectly fine about singing spirituals or gospel numbers. And I certainly don't want to stick entirely to Music By And About White People, because that's horrible. I don't know. It's an odd thing.

Anyway. Also, I took my knitting along with me. There is a definite difference between crocheting in public and knitting in public. When I crochet in public, people ask me if I'm knitting. Then the find out it's crochet and tell me that it looks cool or that they always thought crocheting was hard or that they've never seen anyone crochet anything like that before. When I knit in public, people ask me what I'm knitting and then, when I tell them, they give me advice. Which is not a problem in any way, but I don't expect it. I suppose it's due to the fact that there are a great many more knitters out there. I feel a bit like I'm letting the side down or something by learning to knit, honestly. Which is ridiculous, but there you go.