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[phineasjones]

woe. i did not sit down to write a post of woe but when i opened to the client, woeful thoughts poured forth.

first item of woe: local musician friends! i need help. i agreed to provide a half hour of music for my church's fair that's on saturday thinking that anney and i could sing. but this week we realized that we had miscommunicated about dates and anney can't come. and i could back out but it's so last minute it would be mean. but i really don't want to to it by myself. who wants to make some music with me??? anyone? could be singing or something else, it doesn't matter. and we could do easy things - christmas-y tunes and such. and, of course, it involves the two hour each way drive. but the fair is cute and cheezy fun. anyone?

other woe: omg, can i have a day off please? like, completely off? i guess, technically, tomorrow is off. but we will have houseguests to entertain and i have a therapy appointment which somehow seems to take up far more of a day than the allotted 50 minutes. and saturday will be devoted to the fair and the guests and sunday work and guests and monday and tuesday work and wednesday is appointment day and thursday is work and... oh! that friday!!! except i feel like i agreed to do something with that friday... hm.

in the work category, i have myself to blame for a good part of the busy-ness. i'm the one who has set up this night, which by contract is a 7:30-9 rehearsal, as:
6:30 solo coaching
7:00 tenor-bass sectional
7:30-9:20 rehearsal
9:20-? solo coaching
i asked if we could extend rehearsals leading up to the music service. so i shouldn't be complaining about that, i suppose.

i keep falsely thinking of this as a relaxing morning bc i didn't have to leave for work at 8 but hi, i have to finish cleaning up the house for the guests and get my shit together to try to leave in time for lunch with my grandfather. wah. bye.

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[lysimache.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're going to get other offers, from people you, like, know and stuff, but if you don't, and you'd like, I'vemissedsingingsomuchOMGthatsoundslikefun. *g* (I've also missed going to church, which is a rather related thing, yes. I really should do something about that. Like, um, go one Sunday. :P)

On that topic, do you have any suggestions for local music groups (esp. choirs, of course) I might get involved with? I don't really know anything about the options up here, since we just moved here and all..

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

well, i am not at all sure there will be other offers. and also, trios are ok. :)

so, here are my three questions:
-what voice part are you?
-how good are you?
-are you free to look at some music tomorrow night?

i realize the second question is problematic. what i really want to know is how good your reading is and how well you hold a part in a duet situation.

fyi, the hours we're talking here are: leaving on saturday around 9 am. i have agreed to sing with a group (mostly my choir) singing christmas carols at 11. you would of course be welcome and also be free to drive separately as the time i'm slotted for is 12:30. and that's it for committment though the fair would be fun to play at a bit. random crafty silly stuff and food and uber-friendly church folks.

choirs around here... i don't know them as well as i perhaps should. it's my understand through some extensive searching when i first got out here that there just really aren't many community choruses - not compared to the boston area, from where i was coming.

i sing with collegium which is 5 college but most of the members are community. it's all early music (except we're singing brahms this semester. ?) and mostly the audition would be to see if you read well - the rehearsals are unaccompanied and count on reading. if you're an alto, all the better. i think we're loaded up on sopranos right now.

but there are also the hampshire choral society and the pioneer valley chorus. i don't know much about them... i think wildgreentide is in hampshire so she might have something helpful to say. and there's the springfield symphony chorus which, according to a friend of mine, has recently gone to shit. there's also the hartford chorale if you're up for a drive.

oh, and the um... what are they called? camerata or something? i think they're supposed to be good.

wow, i'm helpful.

[lysimache.livejournal.com]

1. Voice part -- First soprano. Very, very first soprano. *g*

2. Reasonably so. I sight read decently (though I haven't done any solfege or the like since college). I generally ran the soprano sectionals in college for that reason (I could also play piano if the accompanist wasn't available for it, albeit badly, because instrumental music is, admitedly, not my strong point), and I could sing our part correctly against 20+ people doing it wrong if needed. :P (Sight reading was not a requirement to get in, especially with the director who didn't believe in auditions who took over my junior year -- who was 'replaced' after one year -- so we did have many people, particularly seconds, who couldn't read music or hold their own part. Wow, I still feel a lot of seething hatred towards her!...)

3. I don't believe we have any plans tomorrow night, so sure, no problem. :)

Aww, Christmas carols! I love Christmas carols so very, very, very much. And the fair sounds fun.

Thanks for the info. I'm not really sure how much time I'll have, since I don't know how exhausted I'll be with the teaching job and commute... Do you happen to know if any of the local church choirs are particularly good?

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

yay! this sounds like it will work very well. though we'll have the same problem anney and i have - 2 sopranos. i am also very, very first. but whatever. it's a fun challenge.

um, i'm really glad i never had that director. yikes.

i don't know nuthin about church choirs around here. sorry! but i never get to go to church around here since i'm always working.

i did hear the UUs sing once this summer and... i don't really remember. i would remember if they were really bad or really good so they must have been somewhere in the middle. i do remember that they sang healey willan's 'rise up, my love' which is one of my favorite ever choral songs.

so. good. um... how about i e-mail you now about friday?

here i go.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

If you still have stuff to do, it is not a day off. *pets* I hope you get to relax soon, sweetie.

[starbuckle.livejournal.com]

oh! that friday!!! except i feel like i agreed to do something with that friday... hm.

something like come to my birthday party?

whee!