TAN 34 - We'll behave this time. (Page 45)

Oh, absolutely - probably why we don't do it much at church! Our choir director would have his hands full. My choir director in high school (at school, not church) taught us how to sing in Latin - we did a mass or a requiem every spring with a small orchestra. Lots o' fun. And our old choir director at church had us do a really good piece as the end to our CHristmas concert in 06, but he left, so we had an interim guy for awhile and our new guy is now finally getting super into it and will hopefully start cracking the whip.

Wow, you were serious when you said the Meeps went crazy a few minutes ago. 

Yeah, the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is suing us for our property. Currently, though, we are winning.

In the long run... I honestly believe that the seeker service, while it will never die, is a bit of a fad.  

At the Lutheran campus ministry here at WVU, the chaplain goes for the high liturgy end rather than praise service... incense, chant, icons, etc... 

It's certainly not the most popular campus ministry as far as number go... but it has a solid attendance...

-B 

In high school we had a Madrigal group.  That was fun.  All a'capella, no director so the songs were started by the lead quartet and some head bobbing, pitches off of an auto-harp, all different languages...that was a blast.  Most fun singing I've ever done.  I was lead tenor my senior year, they let me start a whole one song.  We were really good too, which made it even better.

Thank the Civil War... wait... that doesn't sound right, does it?  

-B 

Well, I'd have to say that in the long run consistency is more important than popularity.  If it's popular people may come once or twice and not get involved in the service, or feel that they get much out of it ( I know, the theory of "getting something out of a service" is a negative one to many people ), but if people come back regularly, even if it's fewer people, those people are probably a lot more likely to really get involved in the church, right? 

Yeah, I mean, I 've gone to that church before for their young adult service once in a while just because listening to some contemporary fluff and a "talk" rather than a sermon about the basic ideas of Christianity (which I still need in some ways) is a nice change of pace from the Anglican way of picking apart a passage to DEATH and beating you over the head with every nuance and allusion.

Somehow I get the feeling you're a soprano?  Most of the alto sections I've been in have had they challenges, but I can't take high diva concentration of the soprano section.  I know it's not all sopranos, but I think most choirs generally exceed the EPA guidelines. 

Ooh, fun!

Is it any good?

I remember when I was a kid, all we were allowed to watch were re-runs of Get Smart, and some cartoons ( I was a huge fan of Transformers ).  That reminds me, I need to go see the Get Smart movie. 

It is true - I am a soprano. But I've known some good altos - we just don't have any in our choir. They are all super-quiet, so you need twice as many to hear them.

I have no idea what that is, but I gather that it's an island that's totally filled with drama.  Is it different than Survivor? 

We watched a lot of Transformers, Voltron, and Thundercats!  I was reading the Cake Wreck Blog listed in CoJ and it mentioned Double Dare!  I had completely forgotten about that show. 

That's awesome!

Ha!  We talked about super quiet altos a few pages ago.  I think that I am a pretty good alto, well technically you could say mezzo, but I've never really committed to it.  Personally I'm happy just singing harmony in a really good chorus, I don't need anything more than that.  Though I sometimes think I should switch the amount of time I spend on triathlons and singing because I spend a lot more time working on the one that I don't have much talent in.  Of course singing isn't likely to help prevent heart disease or type II diabetes so there's that. 

That's the thing - we don't have many altos who are good with harmony. We don't have a ton of folks who have great musicianship, but alto is where you really need that! We have a lot of "sopranos" but only a few of us who are actually good. Many of the others are kinda quiet, etc. I'm sort of their golden child because 1.) I'm under 30, and most of them are old enough to be my parents and 2.) I'm a trained singer and have good musicianship.

Have you gone back and watched any of those?  I'm so spoiled by CGI now that that animation looks just terrible, but I still loved the shows.  I'm actually glad  that I got rid of my TV service and had to look for ways to watch shows online.  It's much more entertaining to see what you really wanted to watch instead of watching whatever was on in that time slot. 

Just realized two things.

1.) I passed 1000 posts a minute ago and didn't even realize it.

2.) My brain has been stuck in a loop of saying "I want chocolate" for at least 30 minutes. And I just finished dinner.