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I've been very busy with school, esp. with all the piano and voice practice that I've been doing. Much of my practice time lately (basically all of it) has been towards a couple pieces that I'm accompanying the RVC Concert Choir on! They're both really neat. One is the 7th movement of the Beethoven Choral Fantasy (wow! that one is just plain fast!!), and the other one is a gospel piece "John the Revelator". This one is a lot of fun, and VERY different in style from anything I've played in the past.
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A couple weeks ago we housed a few boys from Bradley University after a concert that their Chorale and Chamber Singers gave. They were a great bunch of guys, and I really enjoyed their visit and the concert (which by the way was incredible!).
Here's a picture of me with the boys we housed, right before they left the next morning.
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Would you believe it! We got a snow storm this week! How crazy is that! This is April right?
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My Elantra remains locked up at the mechanic waiting for yet another replacement part to the electrical system. This should be in tomorrow, and it should be the last part.
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Yesterday the RVC Chamber singers (of whom I am a part), were guests at a concert by the RVC Consortium. This was so much fun! The RVC Consortium string ensemble (with whom we had the honor of doing a joint piece) were good beyond what my own uneducated pen can express. They were really seriously good, but I'm not even going to try to continue telling you how good they were. We sang Bach's Cantata #150 (with the Consortium), and then two pieces on our own: "Adijo Kerida", and "Done Made My Vow".
Afterwards, we went out for pizza which was fun, and, oh... It was one of the girl's birthday, so we sang "Happy Birthday". You can imagine me thinking, wow! I'm about to sing "Happy Birthday" with the Chamber Singers! This will probably be one of the best performances of this song I have ever heard! No! I was totally WRONG! I don't know if "Happy Birthday" is too far below the Chamber Singers for them to even consider stooping to that level, or what! But apparently it wasn't worth singing to them, so it was sung (or yelled) much louder and more monotone (right in the middle of the restaurant mind you) than I have ever heard this song sung! Boy, I REALLY wish that was recorded.
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There should be more regular updates to come, but no promises until the middle of May.
1 comment:
It was high time for an update :-)
Thanks for the picture of the three amigos...I was wondering what they looked like!
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