I’m now in the position of learning the same music (Orff Carmina Burana) for two different choirs (Exultate & Toronto Mendelssohn Choir) at the same time. Conductor’s interpretations, pronunciation of some words, etc. may vary — and I’m singing second bass for Exultate and baritone for TMC. However, I am getting paid for the Mendelssohn choir rehearsals and concert, which is a pretty sweet deal. Looks like I’ll be with them until Christmas.<\/p>\n
The weather in T.O.’s become hazy in the last couple of days, after the beautiful weather of last week. It’s depressing and grey. On the plus side, my pictures from Algonquin came out very nicely and have been cheering me up. You can see them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looks like I’m going to be able to go on two<\/b> choir tours next July: with Calvin Presbyterian to Scotland, and then over to St. Petersburg to meet Consort Caritatis. Then right back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m now in the position of learning the same music (Orff Carmina Burana) for two different choirs (Exultate & Toronto Mendelssohn Choir) at the same time. Conductor’s interpretations, pronunciation of some words, etc. may vary — and I’m singing second bass for Exultate and baritone for TMC. However, I am getting paid for the Mendelssohn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}