Sunday, December 6, 2009

Life. Ouch. Dead. Life. I Think. Bedtime.

Well, I'm just about dead. It's not often I'm mightily pleased the weekend is over, but here we are.

Saturday and Sunday both brought Community Chorus concerts. We kicked it off with "Seventy Six Trombones" which of course is a great song. You can't help but burst with wild energy when singing it ... or at least I cannot. And then we did a wonderful new ballad called "Tuimbe", which is in African-style tune about music in life's little joys ... and some of the not-so-little ones, too. One of the best was "The Tortoise and the Hare" ... you can listen to "Tuimbe" at http://listeninglab.stantons.com/item.php?stno=429408 but I'm sorry to admit I have no clue where you can find "Tortoise". It's a new song, and just for some reason seems to be nowhere on the Web. So the first half of the concert was really rip-roarin' good theatrical and silly stuff - except for "Anyway", which is dedicated to Mother Theresa (you know a song is cheesy when you're embarrassed for the saint to whom it's dedicated).

(I should note that the poem - http://www.prayerfoundation.org/mother_teresa_do_it_anyway.htm - has been attributed to Mother Theresa but is thought to have originated with Dr. Kent M. Keith. The poem is quite nice. As a song it was cornball times ten multiplied by the radius of pi squared.)

The second half was all Christmas. I've got to tell you, you know, I always hated "Santa Baby" until we actually sang it. It's so much fun to sing ... and "North Pole Rock and Roll" was a medley of a bunch of familiar songs: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", some old Elvis tune ... really, if I weren't 90 percent dead, I could tell you more. Maybe later. I'm dead. So very dead.

Oddly enough, "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" was most difficult of all to sing: I take it everyone had his or her own idea of the traditional song ... it was very trying, that particular piece. And yes, we messed it up during both performances.

(This is in fact a lie. Well, a half-truth. I mean, WE messed it up in the second performance. Yours truly messed it up in the first.)

And today was a meeting with YUGA (http://www.planusa.org/content172382) finalizing plans for the AIDS awareness Dance-a-Thon in Providence. Come to Local 121 on Saturday and watch me and a bunch of others dance our wee leetle hearts out. http://www.local121.com/home And join YUGA if you are a Youth who wants to be United with other youths for Global Action and Awareness.

Emily

5 comments:

Siri said...

Thanks, EOP - I love knowing what others sing. Liked the African song, and can see how the poem could become horribly cheesey - has a nice sentiment, but I'm sure the music didn't do it justice. Glad you are home and tired and now can rest.

ariandalen said...

Glad you enjoyed the performances, and had a mostly good weekend. :)

Dragonsally said...

Sounds like you had a lot of fun sweety. Best thing about this time of the year is the music, and lots of opportunity to belt out a song.

EmilyLady said...

Quite true, Sally! Thanks for the blog encouragement, Siri.

Back to the normal life today. Library storytime in the morning. Eight year old William is now totally into helping me with storytime, so should be fun, even if it does slow me down just a wee bit.

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