Choir!

[icepixie]

Yay for Choir! Yay for Doc, who always knows what he's doing and is awesome!

Sadly, only one quote from him tonight, and it requires a bit of a set-up. It's been a warm afternoon here. We start doing a breathing exercise equivalent to when a dog pants. Doc: "It's a good day for short pants."

*waits for the groans to subside*

Yeah. We're doing SUCH PRETTY MUSIC this semester. Okay, we always do pretty music. But still. I doubt we'll end up actually doing every single one of these, 'cause we have a lot, but hopefully we'll do most of them. We have a lot of poetry settings, which makes me very happy. To wit:

- A setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "On Thought in Harness"
- Settings of three Robert Frost poems: "The Road Not Taken," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "A Girls' Garden." They're all by Randall Thompson, who I think did that really pretty "Alleluia" we did freshman year.
- An amazing setting of "In Flanders Fields," by John McCae. It's awesome.
- Part of a requiem-but-not-thing called Lux Aeterna. We're doing one of the movements this semester, and the whole thing next semester.
- Something by Copland that we didn't get to tonight, called "Younger Generation." I have a thing for Copland, so I hope we do it for the concert.
- Something short by Handel (grrr, Handel)
- Something in Hebrew that we didn't get to
- Something about girls and swallows we didn't get to
- And then there's the African-language song that's become traditional. This one takes it a step above Dubula and its kin by adding clicks. Yes, we're singing clicks. My tongue hurts already.

So let's see, that's...only three languages this year. Usually we do five. But this is plenty hard enough!

Also, in a really oddly random event, there was this girl who sat beside me tonight. I'd never seen her before. Turns out she went to my high school, and I probably had seen her at some point during my senior year.

I can count on one hand the number of people from my HS who've gone to Kenyon in recent years, and I only need two hands for people from Nashville, so that's truly flukish. I thought it was rather neat, anyway. :)

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[icepixie]

Her first name is Grace. She looks East Asianish. Other than that, I know nothing about her. She seems like a nice person, though...