Sunday Snippet

A good friend and I sang an arrangement of this song in church today, with her mom on piano, and her brother on clarinet. It was nothing like MoTab, of course, but it went really well. I always enjoy singing with her - I get the impression that we make each other sound even better. Someone mentioned today that our voices are "complimentary".

I also started singing again with a local choir, the Sterling Singers. They really are an excellent group, and we're putting together a 9/11 commemorative concert. You'll all want to come - it's September 11 and 12, and the music is incredible. One of the songs is based on a poem by Christina Rossetti - it's our most difficult song, and is really unusual, and will be amazing once we get it down.

Echo

Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope and love of finished years.

O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brim-full of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again though cold in death;
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.

I'll put up an MP3 of the music if I can find one.

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I was also invited to a callback tomorrow for a show I didn't actually audition for... I'd love to do it, so I'm calling the other school in England first thing in the morning to see if they have any status updates for me. At this point, I figure if I get in to this second school, I'll go. If I don't, I'll try for this show and a job here in Salt Lake, and attend the program I really want to get into at the first school next fall. (They've already accepted me for a different program, one I applied for accidentally, but the program I should have applied for is full. I'm fairly certain I could get in for next year.)

Tomorrow morning should be interesting.