Snow! (And Messiah)

[talyen]

Since everyone on my Flist is writing about it ... it snowed! Yesterday it snowed at least an inch. Then it rained, and the snow went away. There was slush in the afternoon, but it was all melted by this morning.

This morning it snowed a bit, too. Nothing that would stick, and apparently the streets were fine (I walked to and from my performance, so I went on reports from others). The wind has been wicked, with gusts up to 47 mph. So I can't take pictures or anything, because, well, it's just grass now, with snow in the northern corners.

Messiah went very well. The soloists came down from their performance with the Dayton Philharmonic, and they were fun and beautiful. It was my first time hearing it performed, as well as my first time performing it. The orchestra was fabulous, too.

Yay! Now I only have one piece to memorize in the next 8 days. And one more piece to memorize in the two weeks after that. I get a huge, enormous break, for which I am entirely grateful.

This, plus "normal" (< 50 hours) at work, and I can start wondering whether a Normal life is the busy-ness I had, or the break I'm starting.

Comments

[legocoach.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the Messiah performance. While I have heard it performed, it remains one of the few things musically that I would like to do that I have never managed to get the opportunity to do.
[Ed. note: this reflects the writer's lack of musical ambition more than his vast and varied musical career!]

[talyen.livejournal.com]

It's a lot of work to do the first time! Especially for a tenor. But you'd have a blast, if you decided you wanted to do it. I recommend it, when your fatherly and other duties give you the opportunity.

Beforehand, I felt buried in how much work it was to learn. During the performance, I was all, "I'd do this again. Let's do it now!"

I hear it's like that most of the time.