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Saturday, December 28, 2019
Come Sing O Magnum Mysterium with Me
Gentle readers, if you are anywhere in the central Ohio area and love to sing choral music, tomorrow is your lucky day. I have realized that if I want to sing the great stuff, I'm going to have to put it together myself, and so I am hosting an O Magnum Mysterium sing. I figure if I canvass everyone I know, I can manage to scrape up four parts, even in late December while everyone is traveling. I can sing soprano, alto, or tenor, but I'd rather just pick one.
So! Tomorrow, Sunday December 29, from 3-6, at the Darwin Manor, we will be working through O Magnum Mysterium and then making beautiful polyphony as we sing it down perfectly. Then we'll have a potluck to feed hungry singers. If you are at all close, and if you love to sing, send us an email at darwincatholic@gmail.com.
I expect you all here.
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You know, that is a lovely idea. While I'm a bit out of that area, this is something that I could do for a group of ten or twelve singers in my area, at my house. And I have a rich repertoire of Russian Orthodox music that I've been dying to try to get to sing. And I can cook decently as well. I think I'll give it a try!
If the only thing that comes from this post is that you host a sing on the East Coast, it will have done a good day's work indeed. Wish I could make it to CA!
I would be there in a heartbeat, except that I'm stuck in LA county. Great minds think alike - I looked that up last week, and printed it out, but I haven't grown enough singers...yet. But we will get there. I have come to similar conclusions, and look forward to hearing about how your project goes. I wish you all success.
Enquiring minds want to know.... did you get takers? Did you make beautiful music?? Will you be doing it again?
--Amanda
We did make beautiful music! We ended up with two people on each part, and thanks to some teens who got roped in, four altos. And I could float as needed and pick up whichever part needed a boost at the moment. We got through the whole thing in three hours, and then ate hungrily. Definitely worth trying again, maybe on a random February weekend where nothing else is going on.
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