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lrstrobel (Ray) is the director of our local SCA choir. He's out of town, so he asked Arianna (the former director) to run this week's practice. She got sent out of town for work, so she asked me to do it.

It was an amazing choir practice. We kicked butt. We sang Halleluyah Halleli perfectly, and proceeded to ace O Morte Eterno Fin. The pseudo-Spanish in Dindirin wasn't even a minor speed bump. Egged on by this, we sight-read the five-part Byrd Gloria, well. Then we sight-read some new German piece Hilda brought that we'd never seen before. Then we went looking for something challenging.

Well, not really. But now I'll find out if Ray reads past lj-cut tags. :-)

Actually, with two basses, three tenors (including me, and it can be hard to sing and conduct at the same time), 1.5 sopranos (Gail came in on a red-eye this morning and was dead tired), and zero altos, we were kind of limited. We sang everything in the repertoire for which we had plausible part coverage (I was often the only one on a part, when we did 3-parters). We sang some stuff that's not really in the current repertoire, just because it had the right distribution of parts. Still, it didn't take long.

We discovered that I'm not very good at conducting but Hilda is, so once we discovered that I let her take over that job. So something good came out of it, anyway.