I know it's late but I NEED TO FREAK OUT TO SOMEONE
So, as some of you may know, I like to sing. And I'm in my school's chorale. And we haven't been as on the ball this year as we have in past years, so some of the pieces with solos only had those solos assigned on Monday, with our concert looming on December fourth.
I had decided a while ago to audition for solos, because, well, I like to push my boundaries, and I always figure I won't get one anyway. This year I got two. One of them is only two lines long and is incredibly difficult, but I've known about it for a while. The other one was one of the ones only just now assigned.
The piece itself is very easy. The soloist and the choir are singing in a call/response style, which means I have a lot of time singing on my own (eek) but most of it is extremely simple. So I was surprised when so few people auditioned for the solo. I was also surprised when our director assigned it to me after I had a particularly mediocre audition.
Only just now did I have an opportunity to look at the very end of the piece (which we have never gone over, because we have not rehearsed this piece nearly as much as we should have). GUESS WHICH FUN NOTE I GET TO HOLD FOR FOUR MEASURES AND THEN SOME AT THE END.
THIS FUN NOTE
I WAS UNAWARE.
It's not as big a deal as I'm making it. I do easily have that note, and I do theoretically have that note even if I am singing it for a long time. But this is a new discovery, and I am suddenly filled with adrenaline at 2:45 in the morning, and I do not think I will be able to sleep. And I really had to freak out, at least a little, before either a. singing the solo or b. RUNNING FOREVER. So thank you, livejournal, for allowing me to freak out at you.
I had decided a while ago to audition for solos, because, well, I like to push my boundaries, and I always figure I won't get one anyway. This year I got two. One of them is only two lines long and is incredibly difficult, but I've known about it for a while. The other one was one of the ones only just now assigned.
The piece itself is very easy. The soloist and the choir are singing in a call/response style, which means I have a lot of time singing on my own (eek) but most of it is extremely simple. So I was surprised when so few people auditioned for the solo. I was also surprised when our director assigned it to me after I had a particularly mediocre audition.
Only just now did I have an opportunity to look at the very end of the piece (which we have never gone over, because we have not rehearsed this piece nearly as much as we should have). GUESS WHICH FUN NOTE I GET TO HOLD FOR FOUR MEASURES AND THEN SOME AT THE END.
THIS FUN NOTE
I WAS UNAWARE.
It's not as big a deal as I'm making it. I do easily have that note, and I do theoretically have that note even if I am singing it for a long time. But this is a new discovery, and I am suddenly filled with adrenaline at 2:45 in the morning, and I do not think I will be able to sleep. And I really had to freak out, at least a little, before either a. singing the solo or b. RUNNING FOREVER. So thank you, livejournal, for allowing me to freak out at you.