Good morning, all! I had a strange dream involving Barbra Streisand, my evil brother Macbeth, and a flower shop where I was trying to help a customer buy plants. That's all I remember now. Any dream with Streisand can only be considered a nightmare in my book - sorry, DR KevinH! - so I guess it was a Halloween nightmare.
Yesterday, when I got home from rehearsal, I had a little dinner, wrote out the new bass part for "The Cherry Tree Carol," read the mail and fell over. This morning is a quiet one; we don't begin until noon, so I can spend a liesurely morning, then do some banking on my way downtown. Today, we go from noon to six pm. We're staggering lunch breaks between 2:30 and 4 today so the men can learn "Good Old Mountain Dew" while the ladies are out and then the ladies can learn "How Far Is It To Bethlehem" during the men's break.
The group handled some of my crunchier harmonies quite well yeterday: I expected a revolt after 8 bars of "I Wonder As I Wander," but it was sounding quite good by the end of its session, and the new finale of the show, the New Year Carol, sounds realy good, although I'm still not sure if I like what I wrote for its 16-bar finish. It will either grow on me or I'll rewrite it for the next go-round.
We now have a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christmas-Up-the-Holler/224697947591482?ref=ts&sk=wall More coffee!