Last Night &tc.
Sep. 25th, 2003 04:03 pmOh, how I do love choir and Doc Locke. He gave us back the Verdi scores we had last semester (we actually paid for them, so we get to keep them--woo-hoo!) with a little post-it note inside. He said I had excellent markings and that he especially enjoyed my record of his comments throughout the semester on the front and back pages. Hee. I'll have to type up and print him out a copy of the quote list I'm making this semester.
Speaking of which...
Choir QL, 9/24/03
- "If I were to draw a picture of that excercise it would look like a chain of sausages, not a big slab of bologna." [demonstrates with hands]
- "I lived on a farm as a child, and this farm had a creek with a steep bank leading to it. We played a game where we would push a baby carriage to the edge of the creek and let it fly. The basses are the baby carriage, and that's them flying into the creek. The rest of you stop at that bar because you don't want to go into the creek."
- There was a little creativity going on in the tenor part..."
- "You still want to yell, but you want to make him sound scary, not like he's selling cars." -- Kit, our student/guest conductor for "Aaron Stark"
The Dubula song is still so very funny. We added the last of the hand motions, which involve clapping and more thumbs-over-the-shoulders. It is certainly very pretty (the song, I mean), especially the sort of cantus/melody thing the sopranos have goin' on over the other parts for the middle and end of the song.
And then came ballroom afterwards. It was an Igor night. Wednesday nights are supposed to run from 9 to 11 PM. Choir gets out at 9:45, so I got there around 10. Igor had only been there for five or ten minutes. This is getting to be absolutely ridiculous. I left at 11:30, even though the lesson wasn't over, because I get up at 8:30 on Wednesdays and quite frankly I wanted to get to bed. And of course, when I did walk in in the middle of something, I walked in on samba...was so close to turning tail and running. Ick. Samba = bad. It's like the International Foxtrot of Latin, which means it's hellaciously hard.
Anyway. That was last night. Today was good because we had a test in Bio in Sci-Fi. The class goes from 2:40 to 4. I finished the test at 3:15 and got to leave early. It was oh-so very easy, and I hope to god I didn't just jinx the crap out of myself by saying that, but it was...
Speaking of which...
Choir QL, 9/24/03
- "If I were to draw a picture of that excercise it would look like a chain of sausages, not a big slab of bologna." [demonstrates with hands]
- "I lived on a farm as a child, and this farm had a creek with a steep bank leading to it. We played a game where we would push a baby carriage to the edge of the creek and let it fly. The basses are the baby carriage, and that's them flying into the creek. The rest of you stop at that bar because you don't want to go into the creek."
- There was a little creativity going on in the tenor part..."
- "You still want to yell, but you want to make him sound scary, not like he's selling cars." -- Kit, our student/guest conductor for "Aaron Stark"
The Dubula song is still so very funny. We added the last of the hand motions, which involve clapping and more thumbs-over-the-shoulders. It is certainly very pretty (the song, I mean), especially the sort of cantus/melody thing the sopranos have goin' on over the other parts for the middle and end of the song.
And then came ballroom afterwards. It was an Igor night. Wednesday nights are supposed to run from 9 to 11 PM. Choir gets out at 9:45, so I got there around 10. Igor had only been there for five or ten minutes. This is getting to be absolutely ridiculous. I left at 11:30, even though the lesson wasn't over, because I get up at 8:30 on Wednesdays and quite frankly I wanted to get to bed. And of course, when I did walk in in the middle of something, I walked in on samba...was so close to turning tail and running. Ick. Samba = bad. It's like the International Foxtrot of Latin, which means it's hellaciously hard.
Anyway. That was last night. Today was good because we had a test in Bio in Sci-Fi. The class goes from 2:40 to 4. I finished the test at 3:15 and got to leave early. It was oh-so very easy, and I hope to god I didn't just jinx the crap out of myself by saying that, but it was...
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