sleeping with the mosquitoes

[fish]

We have been away to a place with no cell phones and no internet.

It was wonderful !

ogontzarts.com/choral-workshop/#choral-masterworks

We spent 4 hours a day in three sessions working up:

▶ Faure Cantique de Jean Racine

▶ Poulenc O Magnum Mysterium

▶ Poulenc Exultate Deo

▶ Poulenc Salve Regina

▶ Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium - YouTube

▶ Villette Hymne a la Vierge

▶ Fauré - Requiem

I learned a lot.

The folks were nice, the food was good, and the lake was big enough for me to row my boat which I did as many as three times a day.

The cabins were platforms with roofs. We pitched our summer tent and put two of the cabin twin mattresses inside. Worked fine. Other people slept with the mosquitoes. 

[Pam]

No cell and no internet sounds wonderful!

Were you there with a choir? Learning the music?

[ejoyce]

Sounds wonderful! The White Mountains are beautiful. I wish I could sing....sounds so good in my head but yikes what comes out my mouth is so wrong.

[fish]

maybe 60 voices, from all over the country.

most somewhat experienced.

singing is a technical skill. if a person makes what they consider unpleasant sounds, it is because they are doing something wrong, and that something can often be fixed in ten minute by a coach who knows what s/he is doing.

and there are those who make pleasant sounds but think that the sound is not pleasant.

nc has a beautiful voice, but she is unsure about it.

[Smoke]

I play bad guitar and sing out of key so I figure 2 wrongs make a right!