Concert week

[owlmoose]

And now is the time for daily writing and posting in hard mode as we move into a concert week.

This quarter, we're doing an all-Italian program: two pieces by Verdi, the Easter Hymn from the one-act opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni (our conductor assures us that it's very famous, but I'm not familiar with it), and two movements from a mass by modern composer Giancarlo Aquilanti. I wish we were doing the whole Aquilanti -- it's a bit jazzy, and super fun to sing.

Concert week is a pretty full schedule: rehearsals tonight, tomorrow, and Thursday; concerts Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Fortunately I was able to shuffle around my work schedule so that I don't have to go in on Wednesday, so I get one day completely off (almost -- I do have a couple of meetings that I'll need to call into). My chorus basically always has a concert the weekend before Thanksgiving. If I'm being honest, this is one of the reasons I've never attempted NaNo. It's difficult enough to write even a little bit every day during a concert week, and I really don't know how I'd manage a large number of focused words.

So if I'm a little distracted the next seven days, that's why. Now time to settle in a little bit before sleep.

Comments

[oracne]

Sounds like a fun program. I know exactly what you mean about not being able to write during concert week. It's like those two activities take the same, or maybe adjacent, brain space.

[owlmoose]

It is, although a little odd for the time of year -- one of the Verdis is Stabet Mater, so that's two Easter songs in the weekend before Thanksgiving. :)

You may have a point with concert weeks and creativity. I'd always chalked it up to lack of time and energy but the idea that they exercising the same creative muscle is an interesting one.

[umadoshi]

I hope the performances are wonderful! *hugs*

[schneefink]

Have fun! I hope the concerts go well :)