Mandy and I joined a choir in Cambridge. No, we’re not singing at King’s college or anything like that, (although they are accepting auditions in January). One of the students at Westfield House lives in Cambridge and used to be a High School music teacher. He asked us to join his small choral group, just for fun, and start up a little choir. It sounded fun, so we did it. We meet in Tapani’s (the choir conductor’s) house for rehearsals and sing in their living room. It’s not the best for sound, but it works for us. We met fortnightly (read: bi-weekly) on Tuesdays for a while, until we decided that we were going to sing for a seasonal service that we would put on. We then met weekly, because we needed the practice, and because most of the songs, save 1, were in German and Latin. It’s a small choir with 3 Sopranos, 3 Altos, 2 Tenors and 3 Basses, although we lost 1 Bass at break who went back to Concordia Bronxville. Our service was held at Resurrection Lutheran church (our church, the Lutheran church in Cambridge) where we sang at the front. It went better than I expected with the short amount of rehearsal time that we had. A good crowd showed up as well. Jon Rusnak and I even invited our German teacher from Cambridge University, and she actually showed up. She said it was very good (although I think she was being nice). The service was only ½ hour long, but that’s all the music we could prepare in the short amount of time that we had. Afterwards we had a reception with free wine (which was used as an incentive to get people to come hear us). We will be singing in the choir again next term where we will learn something not in English as well I’m sure.
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