Hey, Look! It's been another month!!

My how the time flies when you're... ummm.... ...lazy?

I know that I'm no busier than any other person out there, so I don't really know how the rest of you can manage to keep up with posting pithy bits on a nearly daily basis. Anyway.... here's the past month in a nutshell.

The symphony chorale that I sing with had our fall concert Nov 9th and 11th. It went pretty well. It was a LOT of music. Wayne (our director) picked "Psalms" as the theme. I had missed 3 rehearsals through September and October (due to 'Beauty and the Beast' production) and felt it with this concert. I feel like I missed all of the picky-note-rehearsals for the last half of the concert. Oh well, I got through it all without an unscheduled solo anywhere and that's ALWAYS a good thing!!

Symphony Chorale's Christmas concert was this past weekend. (Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" if you're interested.) We had 3 weeks to rehearse it. It was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. Believe it or not, we even got a standing ovation. How weird is that??

This past weekend was also Playshop's production of "Escanaba in da Moonlight". As the business trustee for the organization, I'm in charge of the box office, so I worked it this time. I didn't get to see the show due to people showing up late but I hear it was good.

Now it's all about advent/Christmas music. The chorale has a small group of us (25 voices) that are singing at some local Christmas functions. Our first 'show' is tonight for the local library's Christmas party. Hopefully I've remembered everything I need for the show as I'm not planning on going home before it. We sing at an extended-care / retirement facility on Monday and at a local hospital for the volunteer's Christmas party on Thursday.

I hope that Santa's watching.

This Sunday night, our church is doing our annual Advent service and we've been working on that music like you wouldn't believe. None of it is THAT difficult, but none of it is easy either. Our director (again, Wayne) picks music where not only the key changes, but so does the timing. It's pretty sad when the easiest song to learn is the one we're singing in Nigerian. --I'm hoping that I have no surprise solos this coming Sunday night. At this point, it's a definite possibility.

Then come rehearsals for Christmas Eve. We have two weeks to learn Pergolisi's "Magnificat" along with the rest of the musical extravaganza that IS the midnight service on Christmas Eve.

I'll be SO happy when it's finally January.