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bigmacbear) wrote2024-07-11 11:59 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2024-07-11 11:59 pm
GALA Festival Trip, Day 6 of 10
THURSDAY
I woke up just before the alarm I'd set. We got dressed for the morning concert in Orchestra Hall, starting at nine. Since we were running a bit late, we decided to have breakfast afterwards. On the way out of the hotel, I spotted Lamar, the accompanist for Heartland Men's Chorus in Kansas City, and Gary and I said hi. The Coffee Concert featured Twin Cities GMC and two smaller Minnesota women's choruses. The large work, titled Every Body, was composed by TCGMC's hot bear director, Gerald Gurss (he pronounces his first name with a hard G, which makes his joke on Facebook about "Hark, the Gerald Angels Sing" make more sense). The work featured a small ballet troupe, of whom I particularly noticed the dark-haired bearded dancer in red. There was also a boy soprano soloist on "Tom and Dean", representing Tom as a boy writing to himself as an adult.
After the concert and a standing ovation, we headed across the street to Caribou Coffee for breakfast, then to Target for towels for the evening's Bear Soup. After shopping, we returned to the room briefly to stash our purchases and, in my case, to use the bathroom.
Next, we returned to Orchestra Hall for the concert block beginning at noon with Chicago GMC. During Cleveland's set, Carlos came upstairs with a friend from the Chicago chorus and sat with us until shortly before Coachella Valley started. As we were waiting in line for a food truck between shows, Alan and Rob spotted us and we ate lunch together (and chatted with a fellow RGMCer) on the plaza. We returned to Orchestra Hall for the next set. Atlanta was phenomenal.
After that set closed, I asked Gary to come with me to buy ibuprofen for a massive toothache, which we did at Target, greeting James and Ed along the way. As we approached the hotel, we saw Dennis Rosenbaum a few paces in front of us across the street but were unable to catch up. We saw Gianluca on our way out of the elevator on our floor. I took four pills, collected some ice, and lay down for about an hour, intending to skip Bear Soup, have dinner around eight, and attend the Legacy concert at nine. Unfortunately, the almond slivers on my salad about did me in as a result of my back teeth crashing together. So we decided to skip the concert as well.
We returned to the room, where Gary watched TV while I worked on my journal. I decided to lay down again and set an alarm for 11:30 to take more medication and test my sugar. I ended up falling back asleep and got up to take the medication about one AM.
I woke up just before the alarm I'd set. We got dressed for the morning concert in Orchestra Hall, starting at nine. Since we were running a bit late, we decided to have breakfast afterwards. On the way out of the hotel, I spotted Lamar, the accompanist for Heartland Men's Chorus in Kansas City, and Gary and I said hi. The Coffee Concert featured Twin Cities GMC and two smaller Minnesota women's choruses. The large work, titled Every Body, was composed by TCGMC's hot bear director, Gerald Gurss (he pronounces his first name with a hard G, which makes his joke on Facebook about "Hark, the Gerald Angels Sing" make more sense). The work featured a small ballet troupe, of whom I particularly noticed the dark-haired bearded dancer in red. There was also a boy soprano soloist on "Tom and Dean", representing Tom as a boy writing to himself as an adult.
After the concert and a standing ovation, we headed across the street to Caribou Coffee for breakfast, then to Target for towels for the evening's Bear Soup. After shopping, we returned to the room briefly to stash our purchases and, in my case, to use the bathroom.
Next, we returned to Orchestra Hall for the concert block beginning at noon with Chicago GMC. During Cleveland's set, Carlos came upstairs with a friend from the Chicago chorus and sat with us until shortly before Coachella Valley started. As we were waiting in line for a food truck between shows, Alan and Rob spotted us and we ate lunch together (and chatted with a fellow RGMCer) on the plaza. We returned to Orchestra Hall for the next set. Atlanta was phenomenal.
After that set closed, I asked Gary to come with me to buy ibuprofen for a massive toothache, which we did at Target, greeting James and Ed along the way. As we approached the hotel, we saw Dennis Rosenbaum a few paces in front of us across the street but were unable to catch up. We saw Gianluca on our way out of the elevator on our floor. I took four pills, collected some ice, and lay down for about an hour, intending to skip Bear Soup, have dinner around eight, and attend the Legacy concert at nine. Unfortunately, the almond slivers on my salad about did me in as a result of my back teeth crashing together. So we decided to skip the concert as well.
We returned to the room, where Gary watched TV while I worked on my journal. I decided to lay down again and set an alarm for 11:30 to take more medication and test my sugar. I ended up falling back asleep and got up to take the medication about one AM.