I keep updating this list becauseI keep adding languages to it. This is all the languages I've sung in. This iteration adds Ojibwe and takes the asterisk off of Zulu, as I have now done a piece where I actually had a straight up zulu *verse*. Including a word with a click in it ( Read more... )

I posted this exactly four years and a day ago. But now there are more languages on the list! And I had to take one off because I realized that while I sang a piece with Khuzdul in it, I didn't actually sing any of the Khuzdul ( Read more... )

Ha ha! Is joke, you get it? Because Chorale is volunteer ( Read more... )

I sing in the Seattle Symphony Chorale, along with emmacrew (and a hundred and eighteen other people), right? So for New Year's, as is our wont, we're doing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which you know even if you don't think you do. B9 is literally a work of staggering genius; you could argue that it is one of the finest works in Western Classical music. ( Read more... )

OK, I don't pimp the Symphony as much as I probably ought to, but more you all probably wish I would. But this September, we are doing a work that's really quite incredible; for the tenth anniversary of the hall, we're doing Mahler's Eighth Symphony. Nicknamed the Symphony of a Thousand, it's rarely performed, partly because the resources ( Read more... )

Wow, Lillian is totally walking now. She started walking about a week and a half ago, and I've just been too busy chasing her to update. She still falls down all the time, but she makes pretty good time. Now I need to get her shoes with treads on them. *snif* my little baby, growin up ( Read more... )

Lillian is still sick. I caught her cold, and I was sick. I had one of tWO rehearsals for B9, and we were getting new music, so I HAD to go to chorus rehearsal. Just as I was getting Lily down for her afternoon nap so that I could shower and eat before Erik got home, he called -- his bike light was burned out and he needed me to come get him. ( Read more... )