Date sent: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:26:53 EST
Subject: Re: Xmas concert
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

(sorry list, the previous message from me got sent before I meant to send it.
(slip of the fingers)

Hi Leo,
Your program sounds wonderful, though I'm sorry to hear about the problems -
when it rains, you know. Hopefully today's will go much more smoothly!
Happy holidays to you, too.

Good Luck,
Jessica
L.A.


In a message dated 12/18/99 6:46:28 PM, leomor-at-gofree.indigo.ie writes:
>HI Listers, Our mixed choral group was giving an Xmas concert
>on Friday night last, and I was singing five solo numbers.---
>"O Isis und Osiris" "A te L'estre mo Addio" "Rocked in the cradle
>of the deep" Old man River" &" When a Child is Born" a fairly
>eclectic group.On Thursday Morning I broke my front tooth, mad
>rush to dentist. He put in a temporary two tooth bridge,which my tongue
>kept
>hitting on the TH's the Ss etc. However things were
>flying along and even if I say it myself my voice was in great
>form bottom notes reaching the back of the church. I was halfway
>through "il lacerato spirito" when I felt someone tugging my sleeve -
>the music had stopped, the accompanist had misplaced a page
>of the score. the poor woman was mortified, my wife was worse
>she thought I had screwed up {again} . We are singing again
>on Sunday I think I'll staple the score to the piano.We got Two
>encores on Rachmaninov's "Bogoroditsye Dyevo" it really is a
>beautiful piece.
>
>I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy Xmas,
>and all that they wish for in the New Year.
>
>
>
>Regards Leo ----Drogheda
>