Pennsic, day 6 (Thursday)
DateTimeCourseCategoryDescriptionInstructor8/7 Thu09:00-
10:00Beginning Lampwork / Glass Bead MakingGlassworkLearn to make a basic glass bead using a hot-head torch with MAPP gas.Lady Rivka Le Rojo8/7 Thu12:00-
14:00Islamic-era Folded Glass BeadGlassworkAdvanced hands-on glass bead-making class. Participants need to know how to make a round, barrel, and wound disk bead in order to be able to make the bead type being taught.Lady Rivka Le Rojo8/7 Thu14:00-
16:00Known World Choir rehearsal8/7 Thu18:00-
19:00Known World Choir ConcertEnjoy this performance of people from across the Kingdoms of the SCA who love to sing a cappella choral music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance completely produced and rehearsed here at Pennsic.Erlandr Skald di Norlandi8/7 Thu19:00-
20:00TeribusCome listen to this wonderful performance of 12th-14th century Medieval Music!
anniemal and I both made it to the beadmaking class at 08:30 because it would be full at 09:00. Annie made a bead, and I stayed longer and made 3. And I hadn't planned for it beforehand, but I stayed for the 2nd class too. I wasn't very good at it, but I made a couple more beads. Because of rehearsal I wasn't able to pick up the last 2 beads after they cooled off, so I don't have a good idea what one of them looked like. I wasn't able to identify Annie's bead either to claim it for her.
Tonight's Known-World Choir concert will be good. It will have rough spots, and sections may get lost, but overall it will be good. The bass section is being held together by one person, and it was obvious when he wasn't there Tuesday. Things were better Wednesday. The other sections aren't as dependent. The tenors don't collapse when I make a mistake, and there's lots of sopranos and altos. But I have started singing the middle voice on the women-only piece, because it's just not there. The choir is smaller than usual this year. I noted that we didn't have problems fitting onto the risers.
We're getting short bursts of rain today, 00:05, 10:00, 14:30.The concert program:William Byrd (1543-1623)Virgo Dei Genetrix (5pt)William ByrdLullaby, my sweet little baby (5pt)Anonymous (c 1420)Ther is no rose of swych vertu (3pt women)Anonymous (Cançionero
del Upsala RISM 1556/30)Villancicos de Navidad (4pt; solo quartet)Anonymous Catalan (s.XVI)E la don, don (4pt)Cançionero de Uppsala, 41Riu chiu chiu (4pt)Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
O Quam Gloriosum Est Regnum (4pt)
The choir concert was good. One piece had a serious error (a late entrance that cascades confusion; it had happened in earlier rehearsals but not in today's) but it recovered (and it was on a repeat, so the audience did get to hear it right once. I asked Annie about it later and she hadn't noticed it). I think we were all tired. The audience liked it. I got many compliments. We gave Erlan flowers, a mug, earrings, and a New World Renaissance Band (w/ Owain Phyfe) CD. And Erlan made a digital recording. Svea the Shortsighted (one of the stalwart women tenors) helped organize the gift and shopping. I was glad for the help, since I had sort of become the de-facto assistant director.
The Teribus concert followed ours. They're like a mini-Wolgemut - two pipers and a drummer. (And the drummer had apparently been part of Wolgemut in the past.) Good, loud; I had my earplugs.
Then more rain and a gentle thunderstorm. The weather eased off before the Viking Longboat ceremony. Every year a model longboat is built, set alight, and floated out into the lake, laden with notes and wishes for the departed. It's the focal point of many people's Pennsic experience. I took lots of pictures, and got to bed by 00:05
10:00Beginning Lampwork / Glass Bead MakingGlassworkLearn to make a basic glass bead using a hot-head torch with MAPP gas.Lady Rivka Le Rojo8/7 Thu12:00-
14:00Islamic-era Folded Glass BeadGlassworkAdvanced hands-on glass bead-making class. Participants need to know how to make a round, barrel, and wound disk bead in order to be able to make the bead type being taught.Lady Rivka Le Rojo8/7 Thu14:00-
16:00Known World Choir rehearsal8/7 Thu18:00-
19:00Known World Choir ConcertEnjoy this performance of people from across the Kingdoms of the SCA who love to sing a cappella choral music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance completely produced and rehearsed here at Pennsic.Erlandr Skald di Norlandi8/7 Thu19:00-
20:00TeribusCome listen to this wonderful performance of 12th-14th century Medieval Music!
anniemal and I both made it to the beadmaking class at 08:30 because it would be full at 09:00. Annie made a bead, and I stayed longer and made 3. And I hadn't planned for it beforehand, but I stayed for the 2nd class too. I wasn't very good at it, but I made a couple more beads. Because of rehearsal I wasn't able to pick up the last 2 beads after they cooled off, so I don't have a good idea what one of them looked like. I wasn't able to identify Annie's bead either to claim it for her.
Tonight's Known-World Choir concert will be good. It will have rough spots, and sections may get lost, but overall it will be good. The bass section is being held together by one person, and it was obvious when he wasn't there Tuesday. Things were better Wednesday. The other sections aren't as dependent. The tenors don't collapse when I make a mistake, and there's lots of sopranos and altos. But I have started singing the middle voice on the women-only piece, because it's just not there. The choir is smaller than usual this year. I noted that we didn't have problems fitting onto the risers.
We're getting short bursts of rain today, 00:05, 10:00, 14:30.The concert program:William Byrd (1543-1623)Virgo Dei Genetrix (5pt)William ByrdLullaby, my sweet little baby (5pt)Anonymous (c 1420)Ther is no rose of swych vertu (3pt women)Anonymous (Cançionero
del Upsala RISM 1556/30)Villancicos de Navidad (4pt; solo quartet)Anonymous Catalan (s.XVI)E la don, don (4pt)Cançionero de Uppsala, 41Riu chiu chiu (4pt)Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
O Quam Gloriosum Est Regnum (4pt)
The choir concert was good. One piece had a serious error (a late entrance that cascades confusion; it had happened in earlier rehearsals but not in today's) but it recovered (and it was on a repeat, so the audience did get to hear it right once. I asked Annie about it later and she hadn't noticed it). I think we were all tired. The audience liked it. I got many compliments. We gave Erlan flowers, a mug, earrings, and a New World Renaissance Band (w/ Owain Phyfe) CD. And Erlan made a digital recording. Svea the Shortsighted (one of the stalwart women tenors) helped organize the gift and shopping. I was glad for the help, since I had sort of become the de-facto assistant director.
The Teribus concert followed ours. They're like a mini-Wolgemut - two pipers and a drummer. (And the drummer had apparently been part of Wolgemut in the past.) Good, loud; I had my earplugs.
Then more rain and a gentle thunderstorm. The weather eased off before the Viking Longboat ceremony. Every year a model longboat is built, set alight, and floated out into the lake, laden with notes and wishes for the departed. It's the focal point of many people's Pennsic experience. I took lots of pictures, and got to bed by 00:05