The C flat in the Barber wasn't enough -- I'm also on the C natural in the Bernstein encore. Y'all come on down to the Cathedral next Saturday (ask me about tickets) if you want to hear my voice up in the ionosphere. :-)
Don't be crazy-mad impressed quite yet: the score notes that choirs of sufficient size and skill can do it a capella, which would be AWESOME, but it's scored for accompaniment by piano or organ, and we're -- because we have the NSO right there, after all -- doing it with accompaniment by strings, on account of it's the Adagio For, after all. :-)
The encore is Page's choral arrangement of "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide. (It is a testament to how long I've been living in this town that when the muscle memory kicked in just now, I initially typed "candidate".)
I thought it might be that arrangement of Candide. We did that a few years ago; it's really fun. And for some reason, in that arrangement, I didn't find the C hard to hit, at all.
And yes, I think the Barber, done a capella, has to be one of the ultimate acid tests for a choir. I only hope I live long enough to be part of a group that attempts that. The Mt. Everest of choral pieces.
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The encore is Page's choral arrangement of "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide. (It is a testament to how long I've been living in this town that when the muscle memory kicked in just now, I initially typed "candidate".)
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And yes, I think the Barber, done a capella, has to be one of the ultimate acid tests for a choir. I only hope I live long enough to be part of a group that attempts that. The Mt. Everest of choral pieces.