Split weekend
Jun. 18th, 2007 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damontMisquote of the weekend (mangling Lois McMaster Bujold from Barrayar)... "We have eight people pre-reg'd for our camp at Pennsic: six adults and two 8-year-old girls. The adults are outnumbered, outgunned, and surrounded."
Went to Landsknecht on Saturday up in PA. Got to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
loosecanon, baavgai, and ladycaviar in addition to the usual suspects, but I didn't manage to see edelweiss68 nor siobhan1214. If you were there, sorry I missed you! I left before feast so that I could briefly go to a high school graduation party for one of my parents' next door neighbors, and then came home to VA. Sunday I went to MD to help sigkit pack things into boxen and take things to storage. This was after singing at Sharon Chapel along with blaisedec and nostasia. It was the final Choir Sunday before taking the summer off, so we sang the prelude (Fauré) and postlude ("The Lord Bless You And Keep You") in addition to the anthem (Cherubini's "Like as a Father") which we sung jointly with the youth choir; plus the sequence and communion hymns were performed with various instruments as accompaniment, mostly handled by the kids.
Singing Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine was something of a challenge for me. Not that it was technically difficult for me; I've sung it before and it's one of my favorite choral pieces ever. (See this post for the list, and to tell me about your own favorites.) But I first sang it at a chorus festival in high school on the evening before my grandmother's wedding. That weekend was, in some ways, the high point of my senior year, and I still associate songs from that concert with my grandmother, who I still miss a lot. Oh, speaking of family related things... I hope all the fathers out there had a Happy Fathers' Day yesterday.
Went to Landsknecht on Saturday up in PA. Got to see
loosecanon, baavgai, and ladycaviar in addition to the usual suspects, but I didn't manage to see edelweiss68 nor siobhan1214. If you were there, sorry I missed you! I left before feast so that I could briefly go to a high school graduation party for one of my parents' next door neighbors, and then came home to VA. Sunday I went to MD to help sigkit pack things into boxen and take things to storage. This was after singing at Sharon Chapel along with blaisedec and nostasia. It was the final Choir Sunday before taking the summer off, so we sang the prelude (Fauré) and postlude ("The Lord Bless You And Keep You") in addition to the anthem (Cherubini's "Like as a Father") which we sung jointly with the youth choir; plus the sequence and communion hymns were performed with various instruments as accompaniment, mostly handled by the kids.Singing Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine was something of a challenge for me. Not that it was technically difficult for me; I've sung it before and it's one of my favorite choral pieces ever. (See this post for the list, and to tell me about your own favorites.) But I first sang it at a chorus festival in high school on the evening before my grandmother's wedding. That weekend was, in some ways, the high point of my senior year, and I still associate songs from that concert with my grandmother, who I still miss a lot. Oh, speaking of family related things... I hope all the fathers out there had a Happy Fathers' Day yesterday.
