at university college, they're doing the mozart requiem. everyone who cares to is free to drop in, though obviously with an eight-week rehearsal period it helps to have done it before.
before tonight, i had never seen the score to the mozart requiem.
but. i have had, in my life, three piano teachers, two violin teachers, four or possibly five voice teachers, and six ordinary school music teachers (bless them), two of whom were also school choral directors and one of whom directed me in the handbell choir; i've had classes in music theory at least twice at different stages; i have been directed in choruses by at least three very fine choral directors, and sung with the cleveland orchestra under a series of impressive conductors. to say nothing of the handful of college kids, co-workers, and so forth who've conducted me (and whom i've conducted!) in various sung events here and there through the years.
and it turns out, i'm not just a kid with a decent (if i do say so myself) voice, ear for pitch, etc. i always believed i could sight-read, but this evening for the first time in an awfully long time, if not the first time ever, i did it and did it well. all those music teachers and vocal coaches did their jobs! yay me, and yay them!
PLUS. okay, i'm still not over this cold. i'm doing a lot better, but still snotty in the head and raspy in the chest and throat. but! the fact that i can barely speak has not much affected my singing! different way of using the voice, huzzah, and i can sing through it almost entirely okay. i have my high b flat, y'all. i don't remember the last time i needed that note -- is there a high b flat in the "hallelujah" chorus? if so, it was december of 2000 -- and tonight, with hardly any warm-up and the remnants of a nasty head cold, i had it.
[dances]
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