hlmauera | Wheeee!

I found a choir that I can join without taking up too much additional down time. It's the University Chorale and it meets at lunch time (12-12:50 on Tues/Thurs). There is one concert in March. (maybe another but I'm not clear). This makes me very happy. I've been looking for a choir for a couple of years but all that I have found have exorbitant membership fees, they take more time than I can give, or meet at a time I can't come. As a community member/staff member, I don't have to pay for the class but can volunteer. It didn't hurt to get a personal invitation from the class instructor, with whom I work on technical issues.

This term we are singing the entire Vivaldi Gloria (all 76 pages), Pengyou, Ting!, E Oru O, Al Shlosha D'Varim, Niska Banja, Cancion de Cuna, Duermete Apegado a Mi, & Bonse Aba. It's supposed to be a world tour of music so we have Chinese, Nigerian, Spanish, Serbian, and Zambian along with the Latin. This is going to be fun!

We had our first practice today and I'm really out of practice reading this kind of music. We have student conductors too and they are just learning to give the cues, which makes it more challenging. I can't blame them much, though when I'm head down in the music and not watching them. The vocal part of it is not a problem but I'm going to need to run through it at home on the piano to understand how it all connects. This is another challenge since I haven't been practicing on the piano in years either. There seems to be a few students who have sung many of the songs before so they help a little.

Still....Yeah! FUN!