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pensnestExercise today involved using resistance bands—I've had them for a while but never remembered to use them at home before—and then going through our yoga routine again. We seem to do the yoga in about 35 minutes, whereas the actual class runs for more than 45, so I must have forgotten some stuff.
This evening I got to see most of my chorus members again. It has been ages! They didn't get to see me, because this monitor doesn't have a camera, but Beast says we might have one somewhere so I will see if I can do better next time. We did quite a lot of cheerful helloing and a little bit of warm-up singing (some of the exercises are very cool when sung effectively as duets, with our MD singing and everybody else muted and singing at home). I can sing! I still have a gluey throat, which is unpleasant in the evenings and quite nasty in the mornings, but I can sing!
One of the people in the Zoom works for the anaesthetists in a local private hospital. That hospital is now being taken over as an outpost of the big NHS hospital here and will house cancer patients and, I think, A & E, to leave the big hospital to deal with covid-19. They have been retraining the staff like mad. And there was the 8 o'clock clap, which, I dunno…. but we had a break in our Zoom meeting and everyone went outside to make a noise, and there was certainly a lot of clamouring, hooting and loud noise-making in this vicinity. Will it make NHS staff feel appreciated? I guess. A surprisingly large proportion of our chorus work for the health service in some capacity, and several more have family who do.
Spent a lot of time this afternoon watching YouTube videos about musicals, including an analysis of the music of Sweeney Todd, which was interesting but referred to the hideous Tim Burton film instead of a stage version. And as there actually was a snippet of video from the truly superb version I saw in the West End with (astonishingly) Michael Ball as a really menacing Todd, there was no bloody excuse for using the film. Johnny Depp as Sweeney is an… understandable choice, I suppose, if you want to sell a musical, but Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs Lovett was *ludicrously* miscast.
This evening I got to see most of my chorus members again. It has been ages! They didn't get to see me, because this monitor doesn't have a camera, but Beast says we might have one somewhere so I will see if I can do better next time. We did quite a lot of cheerful helloing and a little bit of warm-up singing (some of the exercises are very cool when sung effectively as duets, with our MD singing and everybody else muted and singing at home). I can sing! I still have a gluey throat, which is unpleasant in the evenings and quite nasty in the mornings, but I can sing!
One of the people in the Zoom works for the anaesthetists in a local private hospital. That hospital is now being taken over as an outpost of the big NHS hospital here and will house cancer patients and, I think, A & E, to leave the big hospital to deal with covid-19. They have been retraining the staff like mad. And there was the 8 o'clock clap, which, I dunno…. but we had a break in our Zoom meeting and everyone went outside to make a noise, and there was certainly a lot of clamouring, hooting and loud noise-making in this vicinity. Will it make NHS staff feel appreciated? I guess. A surprisingly large proportion of our chorus work for the health service in some capacity, and several more have family who do.
Spent a lot of time this afternoon watching YouTube videos about musicals, including an analysis of the music of Sweeney Todd, which was interesting but referred to the hideous Tim Burton film instead of a stage version. And as there actually was a snippet of video from the truly superb version I saw in the West End with (astonishingly) Michael Ball as a really menacing Todd, there was no bloody excuse for using the film. Johnny Depp as Sweeney is an… understandable choice, I suppose, if you want to sell a musical, but Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs Lovett was *ludicrously* miscast.
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Date: 2020-03-27 09:10 am (UTC)