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From Livejournal's Writer's Block today: If you could be a member of any musical group, past or present, which group would you choose and why?
Les Amis de Rabelais. C'mon, hands up, who knows them? Some people here will have heard of them from the first chapter of Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett. It's the musical group in which Lymond is singing in disguise in 1558 in Douai, France. He sings counter-tenor.
As for modern-day groups... Well, I'd like to be a back-up singer for John Barrowman, or do a duet with him like Daniel Boys, but that's just because it's Barrowman. Ditto My Chemical Romance, The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails, the Leahy Family... And so on. Ditto Medieval Bebes (because I like their style) and ...
I suppose I'd like to have my very own concert harp in a string quartet or some chamber music group. The harp is the perfect instrument.
But the truth is I'd rather listen to music than play it. Playing it or singing it takes practice, and time, and hard work, and I'd rather do other things. Which I am doing.
Except I feel more into singing these days than I have in years, so who knows?