Here are some pictures from last week's Grinnell Singers picnic.
"Pieces of music are wormholes that we can enter to escape our normal experience of time." (Robert Spano)
It did seem that after we took in that thought we were able to perform the glacial tempo on the "mironositsi zheni" [myhrr-bearing women] section of Movement nine more convincingly. Sometimes I think we do need be intentional about getting ourselves into an alternative (non-drug-induced) mental state. We can't always proceed successfully using just our normal day-to-day waking state.
Rachmaninov's vocalize -- performed by ebowed electric guitar (solo) and choir: thank you for being open to it. It will be fun to try out different versions of this piece: we have an accomplished whistler in the choir who might attempt it; sopranos take a look at it; other instruments are also possible. I need to prepare a complete transposed score, which will help me keep track of things. Chris Gainey will be coming back next Tuesday to play with us at the beginning of rehearsal at 4:30. Damani will also be coming again soon to play jazz saxophone with us.
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