phineasjones

so. we sang for the composer. and. i am in tears but for good reasons this time.

some things he said (paraphrased because i am bad with remembering exact words):
-that's the best i've ever heard that place.
-if you wanted to record this, i'd pay for it.
-the women who recorded it originally were good musicians but your voices are much more beautiful.
-it's hard for a composer to know what he has to write to express his intentions but you two just picked up on everything so intuitively.
-hearing people who can do difficult things like this inspires a composer, frees him up to write music for that level of difficulty.

and he encouraged us repeatedly to perform and/or record these. i said we were thinking of singing them at my church and he said we should tell him if we did because he would try to come and try to bring katha. as in, yes, katha pollitt.

he said everything my battered musical ego needed to hear. everything.

and then outside we ran into a random woman who was at our workshop and back for this one and she chatted with us (much more than we had chatted during the last session, ironically). she was sweet. and anney asked if she was having fun this session and she said yes then, 'but you know, you decide, really, how much fun it is.' and um. yeah. i felt like she had just peeked into my soul or something equally disturbing. thanks, random lady, for the roadside life lesson.

oh, and I WASN'T NERVOUS!!! alxamdulilaah. i just sang and enjoyed it.

god, i needed that so badly.