return of the world's oldest choirboy

So last week, at the first Elijah rehearsal, the boss mentioned that the movements labeled for small groups or chorus would probably be done with a semichoir, but for now we'd all do it.  Last week we only did part one, so it was "For He shall give His angels charge over thee".  And after rehearsal, I went up and told him I'd like to get in on the ground floor w/r/t registering interest in being in the semichorus, assuming there is one, and he said he suspected I wouldn't have a difficult time demonstrating that I was qualified to be in it (yay!), but blah blah noted.

Then this week, it was "Lift thine eyes", which is for a semichorus of women, but all the women did it; and then "Holy, holy, holy", which is for a women's quartet and the full chorus, so he wanted volunteers to do the quartet part.  And then he said come on, you guys, I mean, people come to me and say they're interested in the semichorus, so, you know, we want to hear people.  And I figured he was obliquely talking about me (or overtly talking about me but didn't necessarily remember it was me [g]), so I raised my hand.  So I, um, sight-read the sop1 part in the quartet by myself, and only fluffed it in a couple of weird-interval places.  Yay me!

I'll tell you what, though, sight-reading is an experience already -- and the experience is enlivened by turning a page and suddenly seeing a ledger line.  But I did not hesitate; and as I was sitting there on that high A, I thought, "Yeah, this would be that vocal quality that at my audition he described as 'Anglican'."  Good thing I've just re-made contact with that voice teacher, because I dig that quartet, and if one person from the chorus gets to sing it in the show, I'd kind of like it to be me.