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bigmacbear) wrote2007-03-04 07:15 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2007-03-04 07:15 pm
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Humor for SMQs and Our Recent Concert
Our recent concert featured a Samuel Barber setting of a poem written during the Spanish Civil War, entitled "A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map." It is a very spooky piece and the sentiment is clearly anti-war, with the description of one soldier's death and the effect it has on his companion who lives on. The crowning irony of the work is the line "All under the olive trees", the olive branch being symbolic of peace.
And all I could think of during rehearsal was how funny it would sound to sing that line in Linda Richman's "Coffee Talk" voice. "Awwwl under the awwwwwwwwwwlive trees."
As a side note, it's eye-opening to mention Linda Richman to a fellow chorine and realize they are too young to have seen those episodes of "Saturday Night Live". Or to pull out "O Magnum Mysterium" and hum a few bars of the theme to "Magnum, P.I." and notice that somebody just Doesn't Get It, usually for the same reason. That's when you know you're getting old.
By the way, this afternoon's performance was, unfortunately, marred by an audience member's cell phone ringing toward the end of one of Bernstein's "Choruses from the Lark" being performed by our small ensemble, Ædonis; they had to hold the beginning of the next movement until the offending phone was silenced by its owner, who I hope was appropriately embarrassed.
And all I could think of during rehearsal was how funny it would sound to sing that line in Linda Richman's "Coffee Talk" voice. "Awwwl under the awwwwwwwwwwlive trees."
As a side note, it's eye-opening to mention Linda Richman to a fellow chorine and realize they are too young to have seen those episodes of "Saturday Night Live". Or to pull out "O Magnum Mysterium" and hum a few bars of the theme to "Magnum, P.I." and notice that somebody just Doesn't Get It, usually for the same reason. That's when you know you're getting old.
By the way, this afternoon's performance was, unfortunately, marred by an audience member's cell phone ringing toward the end of one of Bernstein's "Choruses from the Lark" being performed by our small ensemble, Ædonis; they had to hold the beginning of the next movement until the offending phone was silenced by its owner, who I hope was appropriately embarrassed.
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