[Magdalen] A great sadness

[Marion Thompson]

Turning up on Day One is the biggest hurdle.  After that you'll be 
hooked on the restorative power of singing with other voices.  Don't 
worry about their supposed superior proficiency; that is so often an 
illusion and you will find that you have superior skills in some 
areas.   After all, you haven't lived life in a musical vacuum.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 2/4/2016 10:03 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> David: You and Marion are making me yearn to find a way to sing again.
> Some demon within keeps me from doing what's needed to get into a good
> musical situation: "I'll never be able to commit to consistent
> rehearsal attendance." "All the groups that do repertoire I'd like to
> sing are several leagues more proficient than I."
>
> I do get a thrill from chanting the Epistle to the "fancy tone" on
> holy days, like the Presentation this past Tuesday night. I think it's
> up to me when to do it (and some subdeacons never do, which is fine),
> but I figure if we had a solemn procession, we need the fancy Epistle
> tone. I think it almost upstages the Gospel tone.
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> I similar event occurred for me a few years ago when I retired from
>> the Latin Rite plainchant schola and polyphonic choir.  For  nearly
>> 20 years I similarly sang "the good stuff" with them, counted many
>> of them as friends, and all in all it was the high point of my choral
>> "career."
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