Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Well, another successful preformance under my, and the choir's, belt(s). It feels so wonderful to sing a major work that you know pretty well and it has been since my freshman year that I have known the feeling... The Durefle Requiem was the last thing that we have done that we were really prepared for. Ceremony of Carols was a great work, and we did a good job on it, but we were not there like with Elijah tonight. And why? Honestly, it's because Dr. V had gotten very, very lazy with our choir. We were not near the level we were my freshman year.
We are now, if not having exceded it in only two months of being under Dr. Roberts. She is an excellent musician, an excellent leader, and a wonderful person. It has been great being under her baton for the past two months as we have lived with this work.
Two hours of music - and it could have been longer! We cut about 15-20 minutes worth of stuff out of the thing! It went so well though! Sure, there were problems, there always will be I am sure. The tenors really need help in our choir, their sound is so weak and unsupported (by air) and that cuases them to almost ALWAYS be drasticaly under the pitch... It's aweful. Not only that but they mess up the rythms a lot as well. So does half the bass section. At least we have a core of four really good readers/singers in our section. The altos, I think, have some of our best choral singers, and the sopranos have some good singers as well.
It was a great show, glad it's over! We had a WONDERFUL crowd there tonight, even had about 8 theatre majors and Shannon and Mr. Quave (Shannon Robert, one of our theatre instructers, and Quave is the retired head of the department)
On a tangent unrelated: I hate my guitar and it's a piece of junk. I guess I have progressed from the crap guitar, now I need to get a better one. I just want something that'll stay in tune and not buzz from strange places.
tomorow is the last day of stage combat, our final scene is done. If only that little... nevermind what she is, she's the daughter of my ex-photography teacher and she's as annoying as he is... if only she'd do the stuff right, and get some feeling into it... At least he's grading us individualy for the final group scenes and not as a whole, wouldn't want her to bring down our overall grade!
Bye now! Time to study for New Testament test in the am!
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