Just spent 3.5 hours rehearsing for tomorrow.
the concert will be the chamber singers, the symphonic chorus, accompanied by the Hudson Valley philharmonic orchestra, plus four Bard grad students.
soloists are mostly from the chamber singers, plus the grad students.
James Bagwell is conducting us.
music is Haydn's Mass (his last piece, Harmoniemesse in B-flat major) and Mozarts Ave Verum Corpus (which is also his last piece, coinciding with Requiem and the Magic Flute)
The symphonic chorus is a few Bard students and a lot of old people. Since they were set behind us, they kept complaining that they couldn't see. It was kinda annoying. Yes, it's important to see the conductor, but we can't help that our generation is better fed and hasn't started shrinking yet, and that the chamber singers are a stronger group and therefore in the front. Yes, lady, I know I'm tall and that my hair is big. No, I can't do anything about it.
the stats study went pretty well yesterday. max couldn't come, but we got through chapter 1-5.
on a totally side note that I just want to mention amongst all this talk of music: went to another contemporaneous concert maybe like, a month ago? it was the last one of the year.
An old person singing with young students - look at it this way: it could be your future. As one well trimmed old lady said from her driver's seat to the youth staring at her while at red light: "I'm your future. If you are lucky".
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't that they were old, it's that they were acting very...well, immaturely. One of them was like, waving her arms trying to get the conductors attention...and he had nothing to say but "Yes, I see you ma'am"
ReplyDeleteSome of them where quite nice, but some were sighing when people where moved around "oh, well now I can't see" with a supreme amount of attitude. We couldn't change the fact that we were in the front. we did our best to make the conductor visible. but they were not really nice about it.