fox | a little snappy happy-ever-after

After the spring concert, my chorus breaks for the summer. (Many things in this town break for the summer. It's only reasonable.) But we are, just for these couple of weeks, back together rehearsing a Christmas program -- of all things -- to be recorded for Public Radio International early in June and, presumably, distributed at something more resembling Christmas time. We're doing some stuff -- preparing four pieces of which the producer will pick two, it seems -- from this past year's Christmas concert, (including Sweelinck's "Gaudete Omnes", my favorite, so I hope it makes the cut); some traditional carols, with Willcocks descants (naturally); and some less-traditional carols, also with Willcocks descants, including "Of the Father's Heart Begotten", which it turns out I sang at Oxford probably four Christmases ago and made me very nostalgic and happy!, for once, instead of being the kind of nostalgia that makes me a little sad.

I hunted up the e-mail address for the director back there, whom I liked very much, to let her know I'm doing this piece that made me think of her and smile. I hope it reaches her. :-) Yay.