last few days

[cellio]

Sunday morning the Pennsic camp met for the annual post-mortem. Things actually went pretty well this year, so while there were issues to discuss, it wasn't all that long and involved. And everyone there agreed that there would be no problem with my leaving on the final Friday next year to avoid the Shabbat problems, which is good to hear.

Sunday evening we had dinner with Ralph, Lori, and Mike. It was a fairly normal dinner until the plumbing rebelled. Fortunately, Ralph has plumbing clues and was able to take the kitchen sink apart and find the clog. (Diagnosis: the disposal wasn't.) Unfortunately, that can't have been a pleasant way to spend the last part of the evening. I hope they're able to get it fixed fairly easily.

Last night at choir practice we went through the repertoire, deciding what to remove from the active repertoire and what to bring back (from previous culls). I was surprised by some of the choices; I didn't know anybody actually liked "Pastime with Good Company" or "Belle Qui". No accounting for taste, I suppose. :-) But *whimper*, people wanted to kill one of my favorites, "In Pace", a lovely three-part piece that just flows wonderfully. Oh well; maybe it'll come back in a year or two. Or maybe there'll be an opportunity for a subset of us to perform it at some point.

It sounds like the choir is going to do its usual concert of Christmas music for the 12th Night event, so I get to take a couple months off again. This is fine; I don't mind the break at all.

A couple of the non-Christmas songs that are coming back, and one new one that a group member is proposing, are problematic for me. I'll continue to just sit those out. Fortunately, the choir director understands the issues and is very accommodating -- much moreso than a previous director was. I'll never understand people who say "it doesn't matter what the words are if the music is pretty". (What this usually means, in my experience, is that their own sensitivities just haven't been bumped into, and they can't appreciate other peoples'.)

Last night after rehearsal some of us went to Dave & Buster's for dinner, which meant we got to watch Chris do impressive things with Pump It Up. One song in particular was quite impressive (level 5 and fast), but I didn't note its name.

Comments

[geekosaur]

Oh, In Pace sounds wonderful, certainly... but "flowing" is not how I'd describe how it comes out of my throat, and I'm certainly not alone there :)

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

The plumbing was pretty easily fixed, I'm happy to say. Ralph is becoming quite the handyman :-)

Sorry it kinda ended the evening, though!

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

What this usually means, in my experience, is that their own sensitivities just haven't been bumped into, and they can't appreciate other peoples'.

You know, I have been on both sides of this sentence, and it's a great way to describe it from both POVs (in my opinion). :) Thank you.

[lrstrobel.livejournal.com]

:-) Don't count out In Pace just yet. High maintanence, yes, but worth it.

The annoying thing...

[goljerp]

Of course, the annoying thing is that for a long time, the major patron of music was the Church. Which I guess I'm not complaining about too much (how would J.S. Bach have fed all his kids if he wasn't getting money from his church job?), but it does mean that a lot of classical music is "sacred" music.

Yesterday I was in the car with a friend when Mozart's Requiem came on. That is an amazing piece of music, although of course its religious content doesn't match my beliefs. Sigh. At least in my choral days, the first "major" piece that my high school chorus did was The Chichester Psalms.