Advent, Day 17
Our concert was a great success. The children's choir performed lovely, too, considering that the great majority of the kiddies is younger than 10 and Monica had to build the choir back up from scratch after a Covid-related two-year break.
We were good, too, if I say so myself. Of course, the pieces chosen for the concert were beautiful: "Gloria sei dir gesungen" by Bach, two different versions of Ave Maria, by Bepi di Marzi and Peter Wolf, respectively, "O Holy Night" by Adam, "Panis Angelicus" by Franck, a choir version of "Stille Nacht" and three traditional Christmas carols re-worked for multiple voices. It was a true delight to sing them, and the spectators were truly impressed.
The only minus point was that the heating was clearly shut down in the church after the evening mass, and it was very, very cold. Fortunately, I suspected something like that and wore several layers of warm clothing under my black-and-white finery that we are supposed to wear on concerts, but even so, I've never been so cold in my life. And that includes the time we tapsed around in Vienna by double-digit minus degrees all day!
Coming home, I started with an Aspiring, continued with a tumbler of black currant vodka, then with a large mug of tea - and those who know me also know that I don't particularly like alcohol and positively hate tea - and ended with a hot medical drink called Neocitran. That's a lot of cold medicine, taken profilactically, but I'm now starting to warm up just a little bit (there's 23°C in the flat and I'm wearing four layers), so perhaps, if I'm very lucky, I won't get a really bad cold for Christmas. *fingers crossed*
We were good, too, if I say so myself. Of course, the pieces chosen for the concert were beautiful: "Gloria sei dir gesungen" by Bach, two different versions of Ave Maria, by Bepi di Marzi and Peter Wolf, respectively, "O Holy Night" by Adam, "Panis Angelicus" by Franck, a choir version of "Stille Nacht" and three traditional Christmas carols re-worked for multiple voices. It was a true delight to sing them, and the spectators were truly impressed.
The only minus point was that the heating was clearly shut down in the church after the evening mass, and it was very, very cold. Fortunately, I suspected something like that and wore several layers of warm clothing under my black-and-white finery that we are supposed to wear on concerts, but even so, I've never been so cold in my life. And that includes the time we tapsed around in Vienna by double-digit minus degrees all day!
Coming home, I started with an Aspiring, continued with a tumbler of black currant vodka, then with a large mug of tea - and those who know me also know that I don't particularly like alcohol and positively hate tea - and ended with a hot medical drink called Neocitran. That's a lot of cold medicine, taken profilactically, but I'm now starting to warm up just a little bit (there's 23°C in the flat and I'm wearing four layers), so perhaps, if I'm very lucky, I won't get a really bad cold for Christmas. *fingers crossed*