Schola Cantorum on Hudson **Rocks**!!!

It's looking like this is turning out to be something on the order of a creativity journal...hey, whatever works to get the words moving.

Schola performed last night at the Lincoln Society dinner in Jersey City, and we rocked!!! We did the national anthem to open the ceremonies; for our "entertainment" portion of the evening we did Kirke Mechem's Island in Space as a tribute to the Columbia crew, and a medley of armed services "theme songs" to honor those who have served and are serving.

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We rocked!!! The Mechem is a 20th century composition (somewhat obviously). It's dissonant; it doesn't have any particular tonal center; the intervals and entrance notes are not obvious or intuitive. And we haven't performed it since June.

We put it together to perform in a half hour of rehearsal Monday evening, plus warm-up last night, and the performance was simply awesome. Our director is running out of words to praise how well we did this...

There's such a joy, such a pleasure, when music comes together that way, when thirty-five individual bodies and souls breathe as one soul, one body. Another definition - for me - of communion.

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Picked up this "personality compatibility" test from a friend's LiveJournal...

What I find most interesting is that, for some of the questions, I was entirely unsatisfied with the choice of answers...I found myself wanting to respond with small essays, or "some each of #1, #4, and #7."
kls

I'm an apparently intelligent, liberal, disgustingly generous, seizure-inducingly boring spod!
See how compatible you are with me!
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Another personality test...

Now this is going to amuse some people...there are many people who believe I am thoroughly feline.


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