The last choral evensong before the summer break, just a shame about the football supporters and their annoying orange honking things during the prayers. Needless to say, thanks to the World Cup, we were a couple singers down.
My first choral evensong for ages... and it wasn't really the most impressive. I contributed to the overall effect by tripping over the words in the middle of the second reading, and forgetting that victuals are pronounced 'vittels' until a millisecond after I read it. Idiot.
So, our first choral evensong of 2010, and my one year anniversary with the Nicholas Chorale.
As is becoming a pattern, I read one of the lessons... and managed to completely mispronounce the word "saith" about 5 times. Which wouldn't be so embarrassing if it hadn't been for the fact that I sung it any number of times when practising the anthem. I also lost my place for one heartstopping fraction of a section. Reading lessons remains ridiculously scary!
My last choral evensong before the holiday - when I return it will be time for Christmas music! It was nice to have mum in the congregation, perfectly visible from afar in her bright pink coat.
Mum has come to visit for the weekend, and one of our first jobs this afternoon, as part of Antarctic preparation was to visit the knitting shop to buy yarn for my Antarctic project (Boogie Vest). Of course, we couldn't leave the shop without Mum picking up something too - the makings of a couple scarves.
On the train up to Amsterdam for choir practice we took out the needles and the trusty instruction book, and learnt how to make cables, which fortunately turned out to be easier than I had anticipated. Along the way, Mum picked up a mistake I was making, which also explained the odd effects I'd noticed in my practice pieces the last couple nights. It just goes to show that if you haven't done something in a while, it's maybe good to double check the instructions again!
