| Tropical Storm Fay and Chorus! | [Aug. 18th, 2008|06:50 am] |
Yes, it's that time of year again. I and my other Floridian friends are waiting and watching Tropical Storm Fay which is supposed to start rolling its way from Cuba to Florida today. The center is most likely going to stay on the West Coast, but those of us on the East Coast will still be getting Tropical Storm force winds. Fay is also likely to strengthen into a Cat 1 hurricane during the time it travels between Cuba and Florida from all of the hot water.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ for interesting updates and maps.
I'm having an interesting time trying to get the VPN connection working on my laptop, and network drives mapped to my computer. And the work webmail website is being annoying and isn't coming up either, so I can't check for replies on my VPN support request, or word from my boss saying it's okay to work from home today. Well, if it comes down to it, I can take today as a sick day; my stomach hasn't been behaving either.
*looks at the time and sighs* - I could be sleeping, but "work" starts at 7am.
Oh! I made the Master Chorale of South Florida I was fretting about for months. :) I've already been in one rehearsal (Last Monday). As one might imagine, rehearsal was canceled today and will be made up another day. I'll go into detail about rehearsals later, but I wanted to drop this description of the audition on you all first. Cut for length and because some RL friends may have already heard this:
The first part was sight singing and tonal memory. I didn't do nearly as well on those as I had hoped to! But those are the hardest. And not only are those tasks the hardest, but the examples I was given were very difficult themselves! Wow. I'd been hoping I'd get simple ones. (Note here that tonal memory is usually easy as pie for me, but not so much when you're given a string of 7 or more notes and rhythms which are in different keys and sometimes extremely atonal. The Sight singing? Yeesh)... But the person testing me was kind, patient and encouraging in a professional sort of way, so I kept trying even though I was cringing through my mistakes. The tester ended the session writing his notes on my tests and said "Not too shabby". Thank heaven that portion of the audition was in a separate room where people couldn't hear me.
The second part was with the director himself and an accompanist, in the performance room where people outside can hear you just fine. Heh. One of the women who tried out before me had a voice that knocked my socks off. She was good! Thankfully I had a few minutes after the first part of the audition so I could recover from the Sight Singing shock and get my breath back. I sang my prepared piece which went well and without any mistakes, sang other bits that the director asked me to which showcased my voice better (he could tell what worked best for me, it seemed), and did some exercises to show my tonal range. That part went extremely well. In fact, I did better on that part than I expected to. A few days before rehearsal, I figured out how to shift where my voice came from, moving it forward in my mouth instead of back in my throat, and it worked wonders for my projection and tonal quality. Hubby was waiting outside and when I came out from the audition, he said he wouldn't have been able to tell that was me singing if he hadn't seen me go in. :)
They said they should be able to let me know later that night, and so after a nail biting but enjoyable dinner with some friends, I got a call. I'm in! Woo! There are dues to pay and such, and I would have liked to have known before all of this, but as being in a good chorus is something I want to do, I'll chip in that way to support it.
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