: In retrospect this counts as Total Non-Surprise Of The Week
Choral rehearsal tonight, a short one due to exams; the new piece for the night was For Good. Yay.
Until I started singing it.
Overcome by emotion - and that takes some doing - I burst into uncontrollable tears, and was ushered away by our excellent President Matt, who sings with the basses in rehearsals (for that is his part) and helps out at other points. Waiting for things to happen. Things like this.
He kept reminding me that I really have made it here, to a good university, one that 'doesn't accept dossers' (and pointed out that it was only a significant event in Year 13 that stopped him from going to Cambridge, for he had received a conditional offer but circumstances prevented him from attaining it - instead, he took his insurance option of Southampton or was sent there by clearing, it was not clear which, and says he has still felt stimulated), and that the issues of independence had perhaps gone away.
All true. And all, in this case, completely missing the point.
Had this been, oh, any of the other Elphaba songs that make me cry, that would not have been so. But For Good is altogether different, relating as it does to a certain guilt in such detachment, of reflecting upon what has been gained from attachment, and it was that which made me cry. (Now, Defying Gravity, that be another matter. And Popular, another matter again. See posts passim.)
I now know the ranges of all four people in the acapella group. They are far too similar for comfort, and for the person who can sing A5 and the person who can sing F3 to be the same (CE) is not good... CE might end up as a second alto, and that is arguably a waste of her talents.
She can shine instead in her other performance, showing up yours truly in a duet...
Choral rehearsal tonight, a short one due to exams; the new piece for the night was For Good. Yay.
Until I started singing it.
Overcome by emotion - and that takes some doing - I burst into uncontrollable tears, and was ushered away by our excellent President Matt, who sings with the basses in rehearsals (for that is his part) and helps out at other points. Waiting for things to happen. Things like this.
He kept reminding me that I really have made it here, to a good university, one that 'doesn't accept dossers' (and pointed out that it was only a significant event in Year 13 that stopped him from going to Cambridge, for he had received a conditional offer but circumstances prevented him from attaining it - instead, he took his insurance option of Southampton or was sent there by clearing, it was not clear which, and says he has still felt stimulated), and that the issues of independence had perhaps gone away.
All true. And all, in this case, completely missing the point.
Had this been, oh, any of the other Elphaba songs that make me cry, that would not have been so. But For Good is altogether different, relating as it does to a certain guilt in such detachment, of reflecting upon what has been gained from attachment, and it was that which made me cry. (Now, Defying Gravity, that be another matter. And Popular, another matter again. See posts passim.)
I now know the ranges of all four people in the acapella group. They are far too similar for comfort, and for the person who can sing A5 and the person who can sing F3 to be the same (CE) is not good... CE might end up as a second alto, and that is arguably a waste of her talents.
She can shine instead in her other performance, showing up yours truly in a duet...
Mood: 
probably in dire need of hugs
probably in dire need of hugs