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Apr. 28th, 2009 09:38 pmThe wisdom tooth extraction thankfully went much more smoothly than I had feared it might. Apparently they now have an analgesic gel they smear on your gums before the lidocaine injection, so even that only felt like a vague poking. I lined up a sub for Choral Fellows tomorrow, but I definitely should be myself again for Thursday.
This weekend promises to be busy. Friday night is the Highland Ball welcome dance, as well as the Holden Choruses performance of the Beethoven Missa Solemnis -- the last concert of long-time conductor Jameson Marvin's final season. I'm sort of leaning towards the Beethoven just because it's not that frequently performed, and while I'm not familiar with this work I've enjoyed all of the Beethoven choral writing I've sung (Choral Fantasy, 9th Symphony, finale of "Christ on the Mount of Olives"). Saturday the dentist suggested that I pop by at 10 for a quick check of the extraction site, my mother arrives for lunch, there's a Choral Fellows concert for Arts First Weekend, and then there's the Boston Highland Ball in the evening.
Chris Lane is conducting us for Arts First, and his program of sacred music is a bit more ambitious than it has been in the past. Apparently in years past Arts First sort of just got thrown together at the last minute, and we'd do simple stuff like rounds. And while it would be kind of fun to sing "Nero's Expedition Up The Nile" in concert, as happened a year or two ago, I'm glad we'll be doing admittedly better stuff.
[EDIT: We're apparently listed in the Arts First program as "Sacred A Cappella," which is a pretty bad title since the kind of stuff we sing is very different from standard collegiate a cappella. The title connotes religious musical schlock, when almost everything we're going to be singing in my opinion is more than worthwhile on purely musical grounds.
Also, one of the Arts First events on Sunday is a performance of the 1812 Overture -- accompanied by hydrogen balloons and kazoos.]
This weekend promises to be busy. Friday night is the Highland Ball welcome dance, as well as the Holden Choruses performance of the Beethoven Missa Solemnis -- the last concert of long-time conductor Jameson Marvin's final season. I'm sort of leaning towards the Beethoven just because it's not that frequently performed, and while I'm not familiar with this work I've enjoyed all of the Beethoven choral writing I've sung (Choral Fantasy, 9th Symphony, finale of "Christ on the Mount of Olives"). Saturday the dentist suggested that I pop by at 10 for a quick check of the extraction site, my mother arrives for lunch, there's a Choral Fellows concert for Arts First Weekend, and then there's the Boston Highland Ball in the evening.
Chris Lane is conducting us for Arts First, and his program of sacred music is a bit more ambitious than it has been in the past. Apparently in years past Arts First sort of just got thrown together at the last minute, and we'd do simple stuff like rounds. And while it would be kind of fun to sing "Nero's Expedition Up The Nile" in concert, as happened a year or two ago, I'm glad we'll be doing admittedly better stuff.
[EDIT: We're apparently listed in the Arts First program as "Sacred A Cappella," which is a pretty bad title since the kind of stuff we sing is very different from standard collegiate a cappella. The title connotes religious musical schlock, when almost everything we're going to be singing in my opinion is more than worthwhile on purely musical grounds.
Also, one of the Arts First events on Sunday is a performance of the 1812 Overture -- accompanied by hydrogen balloons and kazoos.]
