All-Day Rehearsal Funnies

Went to an all-day SMC rehearsal today and thought I'd share a few of the more humorous observations from the day:

• A while back I posted about the finer points of pronunciation while singing. Today's word was "deliver" rather than "remember" though. My observation: "DEE-LI-ver" is what Hannibal Lecter did to the census taker. ;-)
• In one of the songs we're singing there is a long series of half-note triplets, which Dennis referred to as "drag triplets". I turned to the guys behind me and said, "Drag triplets: Maybelline, Valvoline, and Vaseline." (These were the "Leen Sisters" the chorus from New Jersey -- then known as the Delaware Valley Men's chorus, now the NJGMC -- portrayed when RGMC sang with them some years ago.)
• There are a few places in the music where parts cross. In one or two of them, as someone put it on rec.music.makers.choral a while back, "the tenors are under the basses, which may be a bit uncomfortable at first."
• The fellow who sits behind me is a definite Avenue Q fan. We've traded a few pertinet snippets from the show on occasion.
• I got to share with a few of the folks who went to GALA VIIe in Montreal the little story about directing people to the stage door at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier from the Place-des-Arts Metro station: "just go up the stairs marked rue Jeanne-Mance" (pronounced zhawn-mawnce as is proper in French). "What?" "Jeanne-Mance" (again in French). "What?!" "GENE MANCE!" (anglicized this time.)