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Concert week
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.
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.