To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Xmas concert
Date sent: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 02:45:21 -0000
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HI Listers, Our mixed choral group was giving an Xmas concert
on Friday night last, and I was singing five solo numbers.---
"O Isis und Osiris" "A te L'estre mo Addio" "Rocked in the cradle
of the deep" Old man River" &" When a Child is Born" a fairly
eclectic group.On Thursday Morning I broke my front tooth, mad
rush to dentist. He put in a temporary two tooth bridge,which my tongue kept
hitting on the TH's the Ss etc. However things were
flying along and even if I say it myself my voice was in great
form bottom notes reaching the back of the church. I was halfway
through "il lacerato spirito" when I felt someone tugging my sleeve -
the music had stopped, the accompanist had misplaced a page
of the score. the poor woman was mortified, my wife was worse
she thought I had screwed up {again} . We are singing again
on Sunday I think I'll staple the score to the piano.We got Two
encores on Rachmaninov's "Bogoroditsye Dyevo" it really is a
beautiful piece.

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy Xmas,
and all that they wish for in the New Year.



Regards Leo ----Drogheda