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Okay, so the second lot of Amazon stuff from my folks came today; The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, by Geoffrey Pullum (yayyay); Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill (omg putting it on the DVD right this minute); and the Cyril Coke Pride and Prejudice, which, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_fremedon and sanj? We are adding it to Movie Night. Seriously, I'm sure the Colin Firth version was excellent and actually the Keira Knightley version was surprisingly good (d'aww, DonaldSutherland!MrBennet), but this one has the exact right sneery Darcy. Brilliant.
Tonight at rehearsal:
Later, the director said, w/r/t a bit with four- and even six-part harmonies in the women's voices, that he had to congratulate in particular the first sopranos, with the high notes and everything because we made it sound so easy. Hee, go us. (Of course, it was the G on top of the staff -- which is easy, and would have been embarrassing if it had sounded otherwise. But that's neither here nor there; the man is an organist and a conductor, not a singer. And certainly not a soprano.)
ellen_fremedon and sanj? We are adding it to Movie Night. Seriously, I'm sure the Colin Firth version was excellent and actually the Keira Knightley version was surprisingly good (d'aww, DonaldSutherland!MrBennet), but this one has the exact right sneery Darcy. Brilliant.Tonight at rehearsal:
me: I am dispatched by my section --(Seriously, we're having big problems with -- of all things -- Berlioz' La Mort d'Ophélie, which is the easiest thing on the menu for this concert ... and has therefore been rehearsed the least. Bingo!)
chorus master: Uh-oh.
me: No, not with complaints, but to point out a couple of places where we've noticed we have issues.
chorus master: Only a couple?
me: Well, for the moment.
Later, the director said, w/r/t a bit with four- and even six-part harmonies in the women's voices, that he had to congratulate in particular the first sopranos, with the high notes and everything because we made it sound so easy. Hee, go us. (Of course, it was the G on top of the staff -- which is easy, and would have been embarrassing if it had sounded otherwise. But that's neither here nor there; the man is an organist and a conductor, not a singer. And certainly not a soprano.)
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