Comments | phloxyloxy: Thanksgiving! And Krampus - a nice blend of cultural traditions

phloxyloxy

Thanksgiving! And Krampus - a nice blend of cultural traditions

Dec 01, 2009 21:54

So, this was my second Thanksgiving away from home, but it was way better than last year. The days leading up to Thanksgiving (and on Thanksgiving itself), I ended up teaching a lot of lessons about American food and American holidays, so I was DEFINITELY in the mood for some celebrating. We actually made eggnog in one of my classes (recipe hereI ( Read more... )

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awomanthatsblue December 2 2009, 00:56:48 UTC

Doesn't the choir have altos? I've never been in a choir that didn't have altos. And that couldn't use more of them. That's where most mezzos go.

phloxyloxy December 2 2009, 14:22:20 UTC

Yes, and there's of course always the altos, but maybe he has too many of them or something? I told him before I tried out that I usually sing alto 2, and he made a face and felt the need to later tell me I'm a mezzo (which I know), but I have the low notes, which not everyone does....not that they get used very often. Bah.

Speaking of choirs that don't need more altos - one of my schools has a very small choir put together for the Christmas mass, and there are about 8 altos, 3 sopranos, and 3 or 4 men. I'm split between the sopranos and altos, depending on whether or not the altos are split into 1's and 2's. But it's REALLY weird. I'd never seen such an alto-heavy choir before! And I miss singing the alto 2 line :(

awomanthatsblue December 2 2009, 20:14:32 UTC

You should tell him "I KNOW I'm a mezzo, but we sing alto in choirs because there are VERY VERY FEW actual contraltos in this world."

I guess that actually wouldn't be very polite. True, though. Completely true. :)

I sang alto 2 most of the time in college, then moved up to an alto 1, and in music theaterland, I'm either a soprano (because SOMEONE'S got to sing attractive high notes) or the whatever-is-necessary-to-make-the-chorus-sound-good. It makes for an interesting life.

mandasarah December 2 2009, 01:31:23 UTC

Oooh, some of those recipes might inspire me to try to cure my cooking fail (which is an illness because when I want to just have a chicken breast and green beans not from a can and I can't because I have cooking fail, try and tell me that's not an illness!). Especially since I had some success with my grandpa teaching me corn chowder (SO GOOD but now that I know the recipe calls for a whole stick of butter to be dropped in the pot towards the end I can only eat it a couple of times a year) and those Red Lobster biscuits would go really good with corn chowder.

phloxyloxy December 2 2009, 14:24:18 UTC

Yay! I find that having a REASON to cook is key. When I'm just cooking for me, I go for easy 1-pot meals, but since it was a HOLIDAY, and everyone was supposed to bring something different, I could totally justify making this stuff!

And it was good! The biscuits really are amazing, though try to eat them while they're hot. (We didn't butter them at all, btw, even though the recipe calls for that).