We had a good show yesterday. The Bach ensemble was awesome. I think us singers were so overwhelmed by the sound of the orchestra that we half sang and half listened. I definitely screwed up singing with the Chamber Singers on Bach's Magnificat. Lakeside Presbyterian is a small church and I knew that with anywhere near a full crowd, plus the orchestra, plus all the singers, that I'd be sweating like crazy. This makes wearing glasses sorta difficult, what with them slipping down the non-existent bridge of my nose. So I took off my glasses. The first movement of Magnificat was sung with grace, power and harmony. I was getting by on the strength that I had most of the runs and phrases memorized. I just needed the starting note. I'm nearsighted and have pretty horrific vision, so I had to hold my folder at just the right distance, or else everything starts getting fuzzy. Then comes time for the big choral ending. And I sing "...anima mea dominus" putting the proper 'sss' ending on the word. The only problem is the actual line is "...anima mea dominuM". And so while the rest of the choir is singing 'mmm' I'm going 'sss'. Since I couldn't barely read the print I chose to sing the wrong word.
I know that somewhere Bach was starting to fidget.

Then came the University Chorus. I was actually in between the second and third rows, squished so bad that reading music from my binder was impossible. This meant that I had to steal looks off the music of the people in front of me, who just happened to be women. Imagine that one woman is at 10 o'clock and the other at 2 o'clock. They're holding their folders about halfway between head and waist which puts the music right below the bustline! I'm sorry I couldn't help it. I had to look through some very nice *ahem* in order to see the music.
Sweating. Looking at women's chests. In church.
Bach turned over in his grave for sure.

But, in my defense, I did sing real good.

Make Mine Music

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