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I got the message that confirmed I was right about what I thought I noticed last night, so I am now in a position to say, hooray*!
When I auditioned for the big chorus, the forms advised us that the piece we were preparing was Bach's Mass in B Minor, but that we also have this Christmas thingum that's not compulsory, and some of us -- two or three dozen, I think, out of a couple of hundred -- would be chosen by the director based on auditions (and on observation in rehearsals, evidently) to do Handel's Messiah at the Kennedy Center.
And I have been Chosen! (I am required by tradition at this point to pause and say "The claw is my master!" Sorry. Thanks.) It's especially pleasing because the list I happened to see last night had a lot of names typed on it, and my name added in pencil. I don't know if that means they were on the fence about me and decided to include me after they'd prepared the list, or if it means they'd made the list and were checking it twice (hee hee) and someone went "Oh, shit, we meant to have Fox on there too!", or what, but yay for apparently making The Right Sort Of Impression on the right people.
Have dropped a note to my parents to make sure it's not going to wreak havoc with Christmas plans, as performances are December 21-24. So I haven't yet said I'll do it. But nevertheless, yay!
In the spirit of that yay, it occurred to me this morning that when the people at the place I'm interviewing today said the insufficient amount they were paying for the job I'm interviewing for was "fixed amount", maybe they meant it was exempt from overtime, rather than that it was totally non-negotiable. We will continue to think happy thoughts.
*Or, I suppose, to say hallelujah, in the event.
When I auditioned for the big chorus, the forms advised us that the piece we were preparing was Bach's Mass in B Minor, but that we also have this Christmas thingum that's not compulsory, and some of us -- two or three dozen, I think, out of a couple of hundred -- would be chosen by the director based on auditions (and on observation in rehearsals, evidently) to do Handel's Messiah at the Kennedy Center.
And I have been Chosen! (I am required by tradition at this point to pause and say "The claw is my master!" Sorry. Thanks.) It's especially pleasing because the list I happened to see last night had a lot of names typed on it, and my name added in pencil. I don't know if that means they were on the fence about me and decided to include me after they'd prepared the list, or if it means they'd made the list and were checking it twice (hee hee) and someone went "Oh, shit, we meant to have Fox on there too!", or what, but yay for apparently making The Right Sort Of Impression on the right people.
Have dropped a note to my parents to make sure it's not going to wreak havoc with Christmas plans, as performances are December 21-24. So I haven't yet said I'll do it. But nevertheless, yay!
In the spirit of that yay, it occurred to me this morning that when the people at the place I'm interviewing today said the insufficient amount they were paying for the job I'm interviewing for was "fixed amount", maybe they meant it was exempt from overtime, rather than that it was totally non-negotiable. We will continue to think happy thoughts.
*Or, I suppose, to say hallelujah, in the event.
