the other day, i finally accomplished one real biggie off my Bucket List. i finally took part in the annual Sing-In of Handel's Messiah at Lincoln Center.
MY. GOD.
that thing is NO joke. you grow up singing the Halleluia chorus and you think you have it under your belt until someone pulls the whole book [and by "book", i mean a score that is more massive than the King James] on you and you're cowering under your forty-year-old rickety wooden seat out of sight of the stage at Avery Fisher Hall like there's a comet coming at you. and He shall WHA?? how many 8th note melismas CAN a person possibly throw into ONE chorus?? how then can one person proceed to sing those melismas sanely, let alone a choir-ful?? I'll tell you, that man had FAITH.
oh God, MUST you continue to mock my mediocrity??
what does it matter, i guess. does the National Endowment for the Arts even even still exist in America these days? does anyone know what music is, or is it all Justin Bieber across the FM dial?? did good music really go out the window with Stevie Nicks? woe is me with the Selena Gomezes of today.
how does God decide as to when someone gets to putz around on the face of this earth, as to who gets to live in intellectually impoverished times like these sad ones, where people don't know the difference between your and you're (or even care), and who got to live during the Renaissance amongst the Italian court, or better yet, who got to live across the way from 25 Brook Street in the great city of London, anywhere between the years of, say...1723 to...1759. is there a Divine Spreadsheet He uses for that?
anyone know a good harpsichord tuner?
MY. GOD.
that thing is NO joke. you grow up singing the Halleluia chorus and you think you have it under your belt until someone pulls the whole book [and by "book", i mean a score that is more massive than the King James] on you and you're cowering under your forty-year-old rickety wooden seat out of sight of the stage at Avery Fisher Hall like there's a comet coming at you. and He shall WHA?? how many 8th note melismas CAN a person possibly throw into ONE chorus?? how then can one person proceed to sing those melismas sanely, let alone a choir-ful?? I'll tell you, that man had FAITH.
oh God, MUST you continue to mock my mediocrity??
what does it matter, i guess. does the National Endowment for the Arts even even still exist in America these days? does anyone know what music is, or is it all Justin Bieber across the FM dial?? did good music really go out the window with Stevie Nicks? woe is me with the Selena Gomezes of today.
how does God decide as to when someone gets to putz around on the face of this earth, as to who gets to live in intellectually impoverished times like these sad ones, where people don't know the difference between your and you're (or even care), and who got to live during the Renaissance amongst the Italian court, or better yet, who got to live across the way from 25 Brook Street in the great city of London, anywhere between the years of, say...1723 to...1759. is there a Divine Spreadsheet He uses for that?
anyone know a good harpsichord tuner?
