Choir'ed! But first, hot chocolate'ed!
Oct. 7th, 2004 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieOMG, this is the best hot chocolate I've ever tasted. And it's just Sainsburys' store brand. Wooooow. When I go back home, I'm gonna need to find an importer of this stuff...
Anyway, choir tonight (so odd to have that on Thursday, not Wednesday). We're doing Handel's Messiah for the first term. It totally took me until we did the Hallelujah chorus at the very end of the two hours to realize, "oh! We're doing that Messiah!" Yeah, I can be a little slow on the uptake. We're also beginning work on a choral setting of pieces from the Canturbury Tales, which we're performing in the spring. It's some odd combination of Middle and Modern English, or perhaps they just modernized the spelling of the original Middle English. That's probably it. (And can I just say how cool it is to be singing the Canterbury Tales in England? 'Cause hee.) This choir is a lot like Community Choir at Kenyon; only it's about two-thirds of the size, and the conductor, while very amusing in a dry and British sort of way, isn't Doc Locke. No one can be Doc. The skill level seemed slightly higher than first semesters at Kenyon have started out, but possibly that was because people have heard the Messiah before.
Oh, and before I forget: Your eggs have no ambition! (tm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Anyway, choir tonight (so odd to have that on Thursday, not Wednesday). We're doing Handel's Messiah for the first term. It totally took me until we did the Hallelujah chorus at the very end of the two hours to realize, "oh! We're doing that Messiah!" Yeah, I can be a little slow on the uptake. We're also beginning work on a choral setting of pieces from the Canturbury Tales, which we're performing in the spring. It's some odd combination of Middle and Modern English, or perhaps they just modernized the spelling of the original Middle English. That's probably it. (And can I just say how cool it is to be singing the Canterbury Tales in England? 'Cause hee.) This choir is a lot like Community Choir at Kenyon; only it's about two-thirds of the size, and the conductor, while very amusing in a dry and British sort of way, isn't Doc Locke. No one can be Doc. The skill level seemed slightly higher than first semesters at Kenyon have started out, but possibly that was because people have heard the Messiah before.
Oh, and before I forget: Your eggs have no ambition! (tm
rowdycamels)