Top Fives

Answers to everyone's "top five" questions herein! Wow, you guys asked a lot of questions. Thanks! (You can still ask me my top five anything, and I'll ask you another top five question back.)

Um, these aren't in any sort of hierarchy. Each member of a top five got slotted in as I thought of it, not because it's number one or four or whatever. They're sort of top five groups rather than lists.

vallentine asked about my ( Top Five Places to Visit/Travel To )

serendipityxxi asked about my ( Top Five Characters and Why )

She also asked about my ( Top Five Pet Peeves )

sleepingcbw asked about my ( Top Five Poems in the English Language (excluding epics) )

wildtiger7 asked about the ( Top Five Books I Most Want to Read )

rowdycamels asked about the ( Top Five Things I Want to Do in the Next Five Years )

aervir asked about the ( Top Five Holidays I've Been On )

She also asked about my ( Top Five Items of Clothing )

weyoun21 asked about my ( Top Five Things to Do on a Rainy Day )

By the by, the Chamber Singers are performing in town tonight! I am definitely putting in an appearance, and will have a full report when I return. :)

CS

Yay Chamber Singers! They were excellent, as always. Too bad the audience was so painfully small (~40 people). I got to see Helle, Adele, and Michele for a few minutes after the concert, which was great, and of course there were Doc and Kay there as well. Aw, Kenyon! I miss you!

And now I have "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" stuck in my head. Argh, Moses Hogan. Although that's one of the better Hogan pieces I've heard. (And I know I've heard it before, done by a school choir. Did CS do it our freshman year, maybe?) They also did a piece of Lauridsen's Les Chansons des Roses, which--eeeee. Love. My other favorites were a gorgeous Nocturne by a guy with a great name: Adolphus Hailstork, and an interesting choral arrangement of "Hard Times," which I've heard a couple times before as a bluegrass song, thus it being a bit of a shock to hear it this way. This one was so pretty, though, and Julia did an amazing job with the solo.

The obligatory South African songs this year were more low-key and contemplative than usual--definitely unlike Dubula--but they worked.

If any of y'all want the full program, I've still got a copy and can type it up for you.