The Bach went beautifully, but it was very tiring - I think our attention span was definitely flagging in the last hour after standing through a lot of solo material, because our conductor had to prod people to watch. But we perked up again for the end, and people clapped, and came to the reception and ate the food we'd brought, and said they'd ( Read more... )

I survived the two straight nights of rehearsals, which weren't as draining as they could have been. The first one was sans orchestra, and we were up in the choir room, which has wood rather than stone floors. We could also occasionally sit. And we got out after a couple of hours, and I got to bed at a reasonable hour ( Read more... )

I went to the first concert of this year's Bach Festival yesterday - our conductor did a solo organ concert, improvising in the style of Buxtehude, improvising on some Bach chorales, and finishing off with a piece written by Bach. There was a quartet to do the chants and chorales he was working from, and some of our choir scattered throughout the ( Read more... )

This post's purpose is to collect my common tags in one place, so readers (and I!) can easily access entries on several subjects.

I have my re-audition for choir on Friday, which means I need to pick something to sing for it Real Soon Now. Like, today.

I don't want to. I'm in a post-concert letdown funk, and I don't want to do anything. Or rather, everything I try to do is not satisfactory to me. Hopefully, this will pass soon.

Stearns gave us a good review for the ( Read more... )

This morning, I was dreaming about being in a rehearsal, for which I'd flown to Poland--feklar had gone with me. We were in a living room or something, rehearsing, but not everyone had shown up (lj user="feklar">, you were upstairs in our room, not singing, but apparently you were supposed to be singing. I bet you didn't know you could sing). It ( Read more... )

Tonight is my one night off from rehearsal and I plan to spend it doing laundry and resting. Dress rehearsal is tomorrow night, performance Sunday afternoon ( Read more... )

Bach Fest To End In B Minor Mass, an article about my choir concert this weekend.

My brain radio is glued onto "Cum sancto spiritu" from Bach's B minor mass, the last thing we sang last night.

We're working "Credo" to the end tonight, so perhaps that will be replaced by something else then.

I am sleep deprived.

The rest of this week will be given to Bach, though I'm going to try and do a little writing at lunch time each day.

The final choir rehearsals are tonight and tomorrow night, dress rehearsal on Friday night. Performance of Bach's B Minor Mass on Saturday. Woo!