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Jun. 9th, 2005 11:38 amLast night, the conductor's piano rehearsal for the Mozart/Levin Requiem on Sunday. Sir Charles Mackerras was happy with us. Either he's 'your biggest fan' or you can't do anything right, and thankfully we fell into the former category again. After the Big Cull of 2004 to bring the standards up again, Sir Charles has been one of the Philharmonia Chorus's best allies to get them back in with the Philharmonia Orchestra, for instance giving us the Edinburgh Festival Der Freischutz.
This Requiem concert really matters to the Philharmonia Orchestra, enough so they were originally going to employ a professional paid chorus to do it. We got it back last year on the basis of Der Freischutz, bolstered by the excellent performance of Gerontius earlier this year.
One of the reasons we know Sir Charles was happy ( has been cut for non-musos ).
And another good thing. Despite all the hard work concentrating on glottals, German Latin pronunciation (e.g 'qva' not 'qua'), end consonants and more glottals, the sheer beauty of the music still carries me away.
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I got picked for the Italy tour! First week in August, at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, plus concerts in Forli and Bologna. Mozart Requiem, Fauré Requiem, and a new piece by an Iranian composer. The flights are booked so it's definitely happening, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forbinproject is coming as a guest. The downside is that it clashes with Odyssey, which I'm sad about missing; but singing has become such a part of my identity that I can't imagine not choosing to go to Italy.
Also picked for the Poland tour in September. Verdi Requiem. We are so turning into the Requiem Chorus.
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In the meantime, I have a tickly cough. Without doing the whole hand-stapled-to-forehead goth thing, this is somewhat worrying and I'm working from home so I don't have to use my voice at all. And sucking Halls Soothers constantly. Singing teacher says, every time I want to cough, to drink water and try to swallow instead. Will consider all and any other suggestions, particularly from other singers.
This Requiem concert really matters to the Philharmonia Orchestra, enough so they were originally going to employ a professional paid chorus to do it. We got it back last year on the basis of Der Freischutz, bolstered by the excellent performance of Gerontius earlier this year.
One of the reasons we know Sir Charles was happy ( has been cut for non-musos ).
And another good thing. Despite all the hard work concentrating on glottals, German Latin pronunciation (e.g 'qva' not 'qua'), end consonants and more glottals, the sheer beauty of the music still carries me away.
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I got picked for the Italy tour! First week in August, at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, plus concerts in Forli and Bologna. Mozart Requiem, Fauré Requiem, and a new piece by an Iranian composer. The flights are booked so it's definitely happening, and
forbinproject is coming as a guest. The downside is that it clashes with Odyssey, which I'm sad about missing; but singing has become such a part of my identity that I can't imagine not choosing to go to Italy.Also picked for the Poland tour in September. Verdi Requiem. We are so turning into the Requiem Chorus.
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In the meantime, I have a tickly cough. Without doing the whole hand-stapled-to-forehead goth thing, this is somewhat worrying and I'm working from home so I don't have to use my voice at all. And sucking Halls Soothers constantly. Singing teacher says, every time I want to cough, to drink water and try to swallow instead. Will consider all and any other suggestions, particularly from other singers.
