26 feb 2009

term 2, Week 6 – sassy, and good diction!
Ed’s weightloss – 0lb

After being heavily edited lin week 5 (all the best jokes were removed), I just couldn’t bring myself to blog last week. Sorry if you logged in on Friday just to read it. Choir practice was very quiet anyway, and Ed was much less theatrical…
But here we are, and im pleased to say that we all deserved a big kebab after working really hard on ‘joyfull, joyfull’ and the ‘lord is my shepherd’ (dibbly version). Eds warm ups were very food related. The poor man must really be missing his kebabs. ‘Im not sure we should all be singing about eating in the nude, so lets hope he’s got used to the idea of pumpkin seeds by next week.

Its great to have the naughty corner back again, to make the rest of us look like a propper sensible choir. Apparently they are all avid blog readers now, so a special wave just for them. Have you done your lines yet? They really enjoyed shaing their booties during joyfull, joyfull, because we are really beginning to ‘sass it up’, after working on the harmony part and putting the two parts together. It sounded pretty good, Ed was pleased.

Next, we tackled the lord is my shepherd, with propper upright english voices again, remember to try and look like you are on ‘songs of praise’, with big mouths, high cheek bones and good clear diction. We shall all look lovely, not at all like madge the baby sitter from ‘dame edna’. Thanks Ed. We will need some soloists for this song too.

Fancy a solo in the next concert? Just give your name and three choices of song on a piece of paper to ed at the next pratice, and bribes of pumpkin seeds may be included.
The tenor line (and the base line) for this song is lovely, and after only a few run throughs we sounded pretty good, but if you are not coming to choir remember you will miss all the best jokes about tenors as well as all the advice, but do get onto youtube and do your homework. Michael will fix the words so that it says WILL in the first part and SHALL in the comfort zone…Then there shall be no more mutterings in the second row…