Next week Husband and I are supposed to go to the church and record the rehearsal tapes for this year's Christmas Cantata. I sing the soprano part, Mrs. Choir Director sings the alto, her husband sings the tenor and Mr. Lobo sings the bass part. And then it's Husband's job to camouflage...or rather edit out everyone's mistakes. That's why we're recording in July - so that the tapes and cd's will be ready by September.
A couple of weeks ago I brought the cantata book home (it's an old cantata and our choir has done it quite a few years ago - more than 20 because I've been in the choir for 20 years and I've never sang this one before) and I've been kind of plunking away at it on the piano; it's high. As in I don't think our choir is skilled enough to sing it high. Last night I saw the actual demo cd sitting on my desk and I popped it into my cd player and started to sing along with it. I'm cringing as I'm singing because I really hate hate hate this cantata. It is old and out of print - People, sometimes there's a reason why things go out of print. Husband thought it was the Sound of Music. Seriously, it sounds like the music from an old Walt Disney movie - like Bambi or Snow White. I shudder just thinking about it.
Is it wrong for me to hope that we will be in China right at this particular time in December??? Husband said that he's going to be in China during the Cantata whether he needs to be or not (the Cantata will be December 15th-18th)...we've told Mrs. Choir Director quite awhile ago that there's a real possibility we won't be around for the performance. Mrs. Choir Director asked me if I was planning on singing just in case. Of course - who am I to turn down Monday night practices? It's my night to get out of the house sans kidlets, and Husband and I usually get to drive together so it's kind of like a date. Sad, isn' it, that we have to resort to thinking of choir practice as a date. Anyhoo, Mrs. Choir Director also asked if I could be prepared to do the solo this year because apparently there was a person who came to last year's performance and she was disappointed that I didn't have a solo. Who knew I had a fan?! Believe me, no one was more surprised than I. So as it stands, I will learn the solo (I've heard it and I don't like it) and my voice student will be my back-up in case we're not around. Husband really thinks I need to tell Mrs. Choir Director that this cantata sucks - why do I have to do it? Lola - don't you dare breathe a word of this to anybody!!!
And I'm also starting to panic because usually I have my Christmas list started by now (yes, I know I'm a freak) and it's just occured to me that I should probably have all of our Christmas gifts bought and wrapped by mid-November...I've been obessing about Thumbelina and have lost all cognitive thoughts relating to anything other than Thumbelina. So what does everyone want for Christmas???
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Your information about the cantata brought back memories. I am not going to say that they are bad memories, but someone came into my office and asked why I was crying and shaking and rocking back and forth. :)
As for Christmas wishes, you are lucky AB is out of the office today so he won’t be able to make all of his requests. He is a little confused about your China trip. He thought that it was a child exchange program and he was going to warn CJ that he better behave or else......
There are days...believe me there are days!
As for your flashback - was that your participation in the choir or audience that brought on that spell?
Oh listening to it is entertaining! Being in it was the nightmare. I just felt like I should be holding a sign up that said "Sorry" to the audience.
This morning I was running a little late to work so I was speeding and wondering why the road was so wide open in front of me when all of a sudden I saw two cops with a radar gun standing on the sidewalk. They walked out into the middle of the road and put out their stop hand. I put on my blinker to pull over and then they pointed at me and told me to go around them and pulled over the three people behind me. I don't know how I got out of that because I was speeding but it certainly works at waking you up way better than coffee does!
Maybe it was your honest face...giggle giggle...hahahahahahah...cough sputter choke...no seriously.
Actually I think I scared them. I needed coffee and was in a bad mood because I was running late. I was probably scowling!
Why can't Chrisssstmassss just be Chrisssstmassssss why must we chaaaange .. it so.
Shudder Shudder
Tell me - is there still a rule that if you don't go to practice you aren't allowed to sing ... unless you don't want to sing in the first place in which case that rule does not apply and you have to sing anyways?
I hate to speak for my wife, but I do not believe we will be able to make it for this years contata again ... unfortunately of course. If you have an extra CD, I wouldn't mind having it so I can give it to my wife as a Christmas gift.
Thanks a lot - now I'm going to have that song going through my head all day...if only that was the cantata we were doing...
You don't even have to be a choir member anymore to sing in the cantata - which I'm not sure I totally agree with, but it isn't my decision to make. There are only about 20 of us in the choir so it would make the tree look quite sparce without the extra bodies.
I can actually get you a DVD - forget the CD!
I feel a sore throat coming on. Perhaps I should step aside for this year. Not that you could hear me anyways.
As for my wish list....Creative Memories. What else is there?
I don't think Mrs. Choir Director accepts sore throats as good enough reasons to skip out on the cantata...you'll have to break a limb or something.
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