A/C, DC

[fox]

Home again.  It's nice out, and very warm inside, which means it's spring and the heat is still on.  Sigh.

Not even looking at skip=seven zillion.

Finished the Sekrit Baby Blanket.  Must just weave in ends, and it will be ready to give to baby-expecting friends tomorrow evening.

Having restful afternoon on couch before heading off to rehearsal, which was the reason I changed my flight to one where I had to get up at 3am in Grand Forks.  Aiea.

Comments

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

Hey, how did you interpret the note from C about R meeting with everyone who'd signed up for the semi-chorus? Last week, he had everyone who'd signed up just stand and sing it when we reached the movement- do you think he's likely to cull the fold or to just rehearse it?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

My guess is he's going to chicken out and have everyone who wants to do it, do it -- but there could be culling if there's someone who really doesn't fit, I guess. It's not impossible or unheard-of (not forgetting that he fired someone from Messiah last Christmas at the last rehearsal before performance weekend), but I do think it's unlikely.

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

I imagine he well may chicken out. I did notice that- no surprise- there seemed to be a good deal more women than men who stood, so I wonder if he might NEED to do something for the sake of getting a balance.

Wow. I never heard about the Messiah- I've always cut out for home before the concert, so I never heed the buzz...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

It was a small group made up of some of us from CCS, some of his Bach Cantata peeps, and I believe some other professional types (KH his favorite tenor was among them, frex [g]). And one day he was scooting around various sections while the real conductor was rehearsing us, and then one of the altos was gone, and the way I heard it, she was an MFA student at Catholic that he'd hired without an audition on the recommendation a friend who's one of her professors (or something like that), and at T minus 72 hours or something she still didn't know the music, which, yeah, no, right? I mean, I didn't know it before I got the gig, but I learned it, you know what I'm saying?

[sadcypress.livejournal.com]

Erm, yeah- it's called being professional, which is a talent apparently not all people have. I'm glad to see that R can step up when necessary...