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kate_schaeferThis week's sing-along was considerably less painful than last week's. There were places where I got lost, when the score switched from all choirs singing in unison to choir 1 and choir 2, or unison choirs with soloists on top, or both choirs and soloists, so that there could be three lines of music, or two, or just one on any given page, but overall Mozart makes more sense to me musically than Prokofiev. The Grand Mass in C has some astonishing intervals, but they are mostly allotted to the sopranos and particularly to the soprano soloist. It's a work written for Mozart's wife, who must have had a fabulous voice.
At the break, I remarked on how much easier this was than last week's Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Several other singers said they felt the same way, that they had all been glad that the summer started with the relatively easy Orff before the humiliation of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. I have no doubt that all of us would have been fine had we practiced ahead of time, but that's the trick with a read-through: you do as good a job as you can with whatever preparation you have, including no preparation at all in many cases. That will be the case for me again next week, when we sing Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalmn, which I have never even heard.
In other news, I retrieved my sewing machine today. It just needed a fuse replaced on its motherboard rather than a new motherboard, so it was a much less expensive repair than I had feared. Now I just need to be careful to pace myself while sewing.
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wild_irises, take a look at her most recent entry, "Friendship Is NOT Disposable". I value Debbie's friendship way above rubies. I wish that everyone had as much dedication to talking through problems as she does. My life would not be simpler, but it would be richer in its complexity if I could convince other people to keep talking throughout difficult times rather than shutting out whatever is hard. The unbearable awkwardness of difficult and embarrassing conversations only lasts a little while. The unbearable awkwardness of not speaking lasts, well, at least as long as the silence. That one isn't speaking with one's non-interlocutor doesn't mean that that dialogue doesn't go on in both parties' heads; it just means that the dialogue in each person's head gets farther and farther from representing what the other person would really say or think or do, and the possibility of rapprochement gets more and more distant all the time.
At the break, I remarked on how much easier this was than last week's Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Several other singers said they felt the same way, that they had all been glad that the summer started with the relatively easy Orff before the humiliation of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. I have no doubt that all of us would have been fine had we practiced ahead of time, but that's the trick with a read-through: you do as good a job as you can with whatever preparation you have, including no preparation at all in many cases. That will be the case for me again next week, when we sing Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalmn, which I have never even heard.
In other news, I retrieved my sewing machine today. It just needed a fuse replaced on its motherboard rather than a new motherboard, so it was a much less expensive repair than I had feared. Now I just need to be careful to pace myself while sewing.
If you aren't already reading
wild_irises, take a look at her most recent entry, "Friendship Is NOT Disposable". I value Debbie's friendship way above rubies. I wish that everyone had as much dedication to talking through problems as she does. My life would not be simpler, but it would be richer in its complexity if I could convince other people to keep talking throughout difficult times rather than shutting out whatever is hard. The unbearable awkwardness of difficult and embarrassing conversations only lasts a little while. The unbearable awkwardness of not speaking lasts, well, at least as long as the silence. That one isn't speaking with one's non-interlocutor doesn't mean that that dialogue doesn't go on in both parties' heads; it just means that the dialogue in each person's head gets farther and farther from representing what the other person would really say or think or do, and the possibility of rapprochement gets more and more distant all the time.
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Date: 2005-08-05 10:10 am (UTC)And I'm always glad to hear about the singing. Yeah!
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Date: 2005-08-05 10:22 am (UTC)For me, it's useful to talk about stuff with someone other than the person with whom I have Issues in order to get perspective, but if the relationship with the person with whom I have Issues is going to go anywhere, I have to take that perspective back to the Issue person and crunch through those damn Issues. If too much time goes by without crunching, either the Issues are all dried up and too crunchy, or they're soggy from sitting in the milk and maybe have a layer of mold grown on top, and I just throw away the whole bowl and maybe never eat breakfast again.
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Date: 2005-08-05 01:54 pm (UTC)("While Kate wrestles the wild metaphor to the ground, we pause for this message from Mutual of ChuckleHah.")
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Date: 2005-08-05 01:56 pm (UTC)Most excellent point, , and finely said, which is why I break silence and make this comment.
-- completely non-anonymous Gary Farber
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Okay, I have no idea what this means, or if you'll ever read this, I guess. Why I love LiveJournal, as usual. Not.
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Date: 2005-08-05 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-05 10:03 pm (UTC)I do tend to babble on my blog, by the way. Understanding that, as you last told me, when I last mentioned this, that you "don't do blogs." I'm just noting that I've said a lot of stuff, if you wish to catch up to what I'm up to lately, perhaps. No ob, of course.
Hi.
Hi.
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Date: 2005-08-05 10:06 pm (UTC)gfarber@yahoo.com
That doesn't work for me. Sorry. Anything sent there didn't get to me.
gary_farber@yahoo.com works. The other doesn't. Total brain fart. Apologies.