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« Reply #7380 on: 06:20:39, 12-09-2008 » |
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I also have a rehearsal this evening. I know how you feel when you have to practise after work.
I have the same problem at this time, though it looks like I don't have a day job. Yesterday I nearly fall asleep at the rehearsal.
It is difficult to be serious with amature performers. Last night only one bass came and even he came late.
You can not expect people to come every time for choir rehearsal.
I am waiting for this experience to pass. I don't want to participate in this kind of things again. I feel too frustrated and bored.
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« Reply #7381 on: 06:59:19, 12-09-2008 » |
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Sounds like you need a break from all this. I have done that for a couple of times Then feel the need to go back. Had a phone call from a friend who said about me coming back, so came at the right time!!
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« Reply #7382 on: 09:38:00, 12-09-2008 » |
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It is difficult to be serious with amature performers. Last night only one bass came and even he came late.
Not true t-p. It is possible and advisable to be serious with all performers, mature ,amature, immature and amateur You can not expect people to come every time for choir rehearsal. Oh yes you jolly well can!! A |
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« Reply #7383 on: 09:45:17, 12-09-2008 » |
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We here are very lay back. This particular people I am playing with are kind of in the middle. They are not the kind: That will do - sort of people, but they are not very rigorous either.
The only choir that is not professional, but sings like one is Baroque choir. They have an iron lady as their conductor. Not everybody likes her, but she does the job very well.
I want to get Russian church music for her. I still have not done it.
Thank you, A. You always have such good ideas and good ways to look at things.
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« Reply #7384 on: 10:13:31, 12-09-2008 » |
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You see t-p, there is a predictability about this sort of scenario, if the attainments are fully considered the achievements could with all probability fall short of the targets intended to be achieved with all intentions flailing at the same predetermined time.It is the strength of the fiery controller which when running at full intended speed that will produce, with certain trepidation , the goals which are required.
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« Reply #7385 on: 10:30:17, 12-09-2008 » |
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I've never been a professional singer, though I've sung with professional orchestras, and if we hadn't turned up for rehearsals without very good reason we would have been out. Even with good reason, we wouldn't have been allowed to sing in the concert.
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« Reply #7386 on: 10:58:35, 12-09-2008 » |
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Oh actually I wonder if anyone can help with something... they've put wires in to hold the bones together. Does anyone know whether you get a local/general to have wires out for that sort of thing, or do they make you suffer? If it's the latter I won't tell him... I have visions of my mum getting her chest drain out last year. Ouch...
Anecdotal evidence only. My son had more operations on his ankle after a climbing accident than I care to remember which involved all sorts of bits of metal and wires, including for six months a great metal frame thing clamping the wires immovably in place. He did have a general anaesthetic to get that thing off but locals for removing various other bits and pieces at different stages. Sorry, not only merely anecdotal but ambiguous about what might happen in your boyfriend's case. I suppose the answer is that if he needs a general they will give him one but, if on balance it is in his better interests not to, then it'll be a local. The strength of the locals was quite 'generous' I believe. |
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« Reply #7387 on: 11:11:01, 12-09-2008 » |
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A,
Your English is really good. I like when you speak that way. It is a good work out for my brains.
Mary Chambers,
I did not know you sang in a choir. That is interesting.
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« Reply #7388 on: 11:22:57, 12-09-2008 » |
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Thanks all. It's nice to be able to come on here for a vent in a very empty house.  Oh actually I wonder if anyone can help with something... they've put wires in to hold the bones together. Does anyone know whether you get a local/general to have wires out for that sort of thing, or do they make you suffer? If it's the latter I won't tell him... I have visions of my mum getting her chest drain out last year. Ouch... Rubes, have you had a word with the docs about it (if you can manage to capture one for 5 minutes  ) ? Or a senior member of nursing staff? It's a perfectly reasonable request to make. Common sense says to me that if he had anaesthetic to put the wires in then they would give him one to take them out. But then I aint a doctor. When I had a kidney drain removed some years ago they sedated the socks off me. I felt no pain! Your fellow is a lucky chap to have you around, Rubes. Pat on the back to you  |
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« Reply #7389 on: 11:27:01, 12-09-2008 » |
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they sedated the socks off me. Ooh wouldn't that be nice? I could just do with that right now. Blissful woozy semi-consciousness. Mmmmm. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #7390 on: 11:31:08, 12-09-2008 » |
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Mary Chambers,
I did not know you sang in a choir. That is interesting.
I don't any more, t-p. I stopped over ten years ago. Voices don't improve with age! |
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« Reply #7391 on: 11:34:37, 12-09-2008 » |
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Singers can sing for a long time. May be they can have less high notes, but they sing.
Are you soprano or alto?
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« Reply #7392 on: 11:47:22, 12-09-2008 » |
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Singers can sing for a long time. May be they can have less high notes, but they sing.
Are you soprano or alto?
First alto, after being second soprano when I was younger. Older singers tend to get more wobbly - listen to any choir with predominantly older singers. Men seem to last much longer than women, which isn't fair! |
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« Reply #7393 on: 11:51:35, 12-09-2008 » |
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Singers can sing for a long time. May be they can have less high notes, but they sing.
Are you soprano or alto?
First alto, after being second soprano when I was younger. Older singers tend to get more wobbly - listen to any choir with predominantly older singers. Men seem to last much longer than women, which isn't fair! Yes but is that due to sheer stubbornness? A visit to any choral society will soon reveal a plethora of wobbly basses and shrieking tenors who are carrying on way beyond their sell-by-date. I did some recording for a lady nearing 75 last year who, although her voice was no longer at its prime, still exhibited a great control over her voice (as long as she warmed up first) and produced a sound more pleasing than a number of my current students who are first-study singers. |
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« Reply #7394 on: 12:19:42, 12-09-2008 » |
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First alto, after being second soprano when I was younger. Older singers tend to get more wobbly - listen to any choir with predominantly older singers. Men seem to last much longer than women, which isn't fair!
Yes but is that due to sheer stubbornness? A visit to any choral society will soon reveal a plethora of wobbly basses and shrieking tenors who are carrying on way beyond their sell-by-date. I meant the sort of choir where you would be auditioned out if you got worse. I was careful to leave before that happened . Though even then men probably get away with it more, particularly that rare breed, the tenor. Think of singers like Philip Langridge (born 1939) or John Tomlinson (1946), still first class in their sixties. I can't think of many women like that, if any. I heard Victoria de Los Angeles when she was about 70, very sad. |
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