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a good day for singing a song
May. 2nd, 2022 09:19 pmWell.
Harrogate in the sunshine is particularly lovely, and sunshine there was when we arrived (after a long and tedious journey punctuated with traffic jams and Beast's nimble navigating) on Friday for the long-awaited British Association of Barbershop Singers convention, the first since 2019.
Saturday was men's chorus day. I can only take so much barbershopping in my life, so pootled around town in the morning. After, that is, Beast and I called at the local branch of our bank to plead with them to let us have cash. Neither of us remembered to take our wallets... they were willing to part with £50, and it turned out we didn't spend any of it anyway. Watches with credit cards attached are a really brilliant thing. Anyway. I watched the afternoon's chorus competition sessions, and there was some truly amazing stuff performed. Then the medals were awarded, and we trotted across the road for Beast's chorus meal out (including a spirited rendition of Hello Mary Lou).
Sunday morning was Mixed Chorus competition time (which is why I was there), and our chorus, Mosaic, was first on, which meant that by 7.30am we had to be in stagewear and makeup and humming gently in the rehearsal room. Meep.
!!!We won the Best Small Mixed Chorus Award!!!!
Which meant that our lovely MD and I (as Chair) leapt from our seats in delighted astonishment (we had not known there would be a Small chorus award, nor that we qualified) and got to the stage to be presented with it. A large plaque, a box to put it in, and a big gold envelope which turned out to contain a voucher for £250, so, yay! And our score went up from 65.4% last time out to 68%.
We are all, not unnaturally, Extremely Pleased With Ourselves.
Harrogate in the sunshine is particularly lovely, and sunshine there was when we arrived (after a long and tedious journey punctuated with traffic jams and Beast's nimble navigating) on Friday for the long-awaited British Association of Barbershop Singers convention, the first since 2019.
Saturday was men's chorus day. I can only take so much barbershopping in my life, so pootled around town in the morning. After, that is, Beast and I called at the local branch of our bank to plead with them to let us have cash. Neither of us remembered to take our wallets... they were willing to part with £50, and it turned out we didn't spend any of it anyway. Watches with credit cards attached are a really brilliant thing. Anyway. I watched the afternoon's chorus competition sessions, and there was some truly amazing stuff performed. Then the medals were awarded, and we trotted across the road for Beast's chorus meal out (including a spirited rendition of Hello Mary Lou).
Sunday morning was Mixed Chorus competition time (which is why I was there), and our chorus, Mosaic, was first on, which meant that by 7.30am we had to be in stagewear and makeup and humming gently in the rehearsal room. Meep.
!!!We won the Best Small Mixed Chorus Award!!!!
Which meant that our lovely MD and I (as Chair) leapt from our seats in delighted astonishment (we had not known there would be a Small chorus award, nor that we qualified) and got to the stage to be presented with it. A large plaque, a box to put it in, and a big gold envelope which turned out to contain a voucher for £250, so, yay! And our score went up from 65.4% last time out to 68%.
We are all, not unnaturally, Extremely Pleased With Ourselves.