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In a shocking development, the powers that be decided to okay my request to come in an hour early on Mondays so that I can leave an hour early and make it to rehearsal with the Tapestry Singers. Hub's mom describes them basically as the lesbian casual choir, which suits me just fine. No auditions, no fancy dress. I miss music in my life. Even though choir isn't technically creative since you're singing something someone else wrote, it's still art. I tried to get a couple of folks together to play brass , but it didn't really work out and I think my French horn playing days are mostly over. But singing, I can do- I have pretty good pitch though not any kind of spectacular singing voice. Think girl Paul Simon, I guess. I never did figure out how you do that vibrato stuff. But in a crowd, you don't really need it. MIL [immediate sidetrack- who the hell in my immediate work environment smells like they just shat themselves? Jesus! It's awful!!!] says she used to be in all the choirs when she was a kid and even majored in music in high school (majored in something in high school?) so she was happy to find these guys when she was looking for something fun to do.
I sang in the girl's choir in my junior year, then took the plunge and joined the main choir in my senior year, which was more challenging. We had a mess of girls as you'd expect and not really many guys. So I volunteered to sing tenor. My range covered it pretty well, I got to mingle with the guys, and I got to wear a tuxedo for concerts, which was far, far better than those awful bridesmaid's dress horrors the girls had to wear. MIL tells me that Tapestry divides up into soprano 1 and 2, and alto 1 and 2. I suppose I will offer to sing alto 2 then. They probably had that same division in the girl's choir I was in back in the day, but that was close to 20 years ago. Damn.
I tried to join a choir when I was going to school at UT, but they didn't really have a, oh, amateur choir I guess you'd call it. I vaguely remember summoning up a whole lot of courage and auditioning for the lowest-level one they offered- I have never been comfortable singing solo in front of other people to the point where I won't even sing along with the radio if there are other people in the car. I don't know why I have this block, but it's very strong. Anyway, so I sang for this guy and he was very nice about it, but said I was not cut out for their choir. A few years later a friend recommended a church choir; I was unfamiliar with the monstrosity that is the Hyde Park Baptist Church, but this was the one I showed up at. I was greeted very warmly by everyone, then immediately stuck in a green robe and we were all herded off for pictures. It amuses me that somewhere there are pictures of the HPBC choir and I'm in 'em. Anyway, they were getting ready for revival, and were getting all fired up explaining that all of Austin was on the brink of hell, and needed saving, and by gosh we were going to help. I had just started exploring my pagan tendencies by that point and so all that brimstone talk made me really uncomfortable. So I never went back. Even just going that once got me on their mailing list, and I had to request several times to get off it, as I recall.
So anyway, I got up extra early today and will be headed over to the Tapestry rehearsal from 7 to 9 tonight. We'll see how it goes. I'm pretty excited about it though.
I sang in the girl's choir in my junior year, then took the plunge and joined the main choir in my senior year, which was more challenging. We had a mess of girls as you'd expect and not really many guys. So I volunteered to sing tenor. My range covered it pretty well, I got to mingle with the guys, and I got to wear a tuxedo for concerts, which was far, far better than those awful bridesmaid's dress horrors the girls had to wear. MIL tells me that Tapestry divides up into soprano 1 and 2, and alto 1 and 2. I suppose I will offer to sing alto 2 then. They probably had that same division in the girl's choir I was in back in the day, but that was close to 20 years ago. Damn.
I tried to join a choir when I was going to school at UT, but they didn't really have a, oh, amateur choir I guess you'd call it. I vaguely remember summoning up a whole lot of courage and auditioning for the lowest-level one they offered- I have never been comfortable singing solo in front of other people to the point where I won't even sing along with the radio if there are other people in the car. I don't know why I have this block, but it's very strong. Anyway, so I sang for this guy and he was very nice about it, but said I was not cut out for their choir. A few years later a friend recommended a church choir; I was unfamiliar with the monstrosity that is the Hyde Park Baptist Church, but this was the one I showed up at. I was greeted very warmly by everyone, then immediately stuck in a green robe and we were all herded off for pictures. It amuses me that somewhere there are pictures of the HPBC choir and I'm in 'em. Anyway, they were getting ready for revival, and were getting all fired up explaining that all of Austin was on the brink of hell, and needed saving, and by gosh we were going to help. I had just started exploring my pagan tendencies by that point and so all that brimstone talk made me really uncomfortable. So I never went back. Even just going that once got me on their mailing list, and I had to request several times to get off it, as I recall.
So anyway, I got up extra early today and will be headed over to the Tapestry rehearsal from 7 to 9 tonight. We'll see how it goes. I'm pretty excited about it though.
