SFSU Chamber Singers Spring Tour '03 Afterthoughts

Now that the tour is over and done, it's back to the regular swing of things. After our 2 o'clock concert on Saturday [see previous blog]we sat and watched Boise State Meistersingers and the University of Oregon Chamber Singers perform at the 3 and 4 o'clock hours. Then we all went to one of the rooms to have dinner. I ended up being joined by a few of the singers from the U of O concert choir, and after dinner, Lauren, one of my new 'met and had a good time with but probably will never see again' friends agreed to give us a tour of the campus. In the freakin' pouring rain. "C'mon you wussies, it's just rain!" she said. If that's not a threat to your manhood, I don't know what is! =P

After the tour, Lauren had to get ready to sing and I went back to work on Sh-Boom with 5 of the guys from the choir. For the past three years it's been a tradition for some of the folks to get together and do a little a capella number. Our director actually let us perform a doo-wop song in Cuba last year. The mantle was sorta passed on to me when Paul, our previous resident a capella guru left for school in France.

I've been arranging four and five part harmonies since about high school [you know, we all had our little superstar aspirations]. But everytime I did it I was sitting by a piano. This is one of the first times I arranged something completely in my head, which was pretty tough. But it's working out. I'm a little spoiled by the musicianship, because the guys singing with me are such good music readers that they're used to having something to read, as opposed to learning by ear.

After the concert we went Salsa dancing. And now it's settled. I REALLY have to learn how to salsa dance good. Three drinks later [sans food] we got back to the Ramada about 230. Then we woke up at 630 to leave at 7am. Three hours later we stopped in Ashland [home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival] for lunch, then once near the Cascades so we could enjoy the snow and have a little snowball fight. Last stop was in Vacaville for dinner, and then we got back to school around 620. That was a total of almost 11 1/2 hours.

The lack of sleep the night before, plus the rain and snow really depressed my immune system and I developed a weird sort of 'lose your voice, phlegm in your chest, headaches plus hay fever' condition that really sucked and I'm just sort of shaking off.

Now it's time to go file for my tax extension.

Make Mine Music

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