[Magdalen] A great sadness

[Jay Weigel]

What Marion said. It's easiest to start with an established group.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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> On 2/4/2016 10:03 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
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>> 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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