[okchorale] Re: OK Chorale 2PM Saturday at Boskone

["Paula Lieberman" <paal@xxxxxxx>]

Oh, please -no-.... I have little affection for Stars Wars stuff, and the
longer it goes on, the less happy I'd be....

Is there any way we could practice sometime during the filking on Friday
night -- go off for a half hour or say two twenty minute segments during the
filking, rather than waiting until Saturday?

As for other stuff -- I know nothing about Long Wing Feathers, which to me
is a -vast- improvement over _Acts of Creation_....  But, perhaps there are
some things out there familiar to both us and the filk audience that would
take a minimum of preparation to get familiar with... for that matter the
Ballad of Gordy Dickson is -really- simple (or at least, -I've- known it for
literally 29 years.... )

----- Original Message -----
From: Mabel Liang <mabel@twomeeps.com>
To: <okchorale@filknet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: [okchorale] Re: OK Chorale 2PM Saturday at Boskone


> I think it's a little silly to panic at this point about the amount of
> material we have.  We are what we are, and I don't think we were ever
> striving to fill an hour.
>
> Having said that, I think we _could_ probably teach the Star Wars Canon.
We
> can check on Wednesday and see how solid it is.
>
> We could certainly take a look at Long Wing Feathers.  I don't remember it
> being very difficult.
>
> I'm willing to do _some_ amount of rehearsal at the con- I'm not sure
about
> 3 hours.  My life that weekend has also gotten complicated by the
scheduling
> of a possible meeting of my cohousing group with our "colorist" on
Saturday
> morning to finalize the colors of our buildings in daylight.  All of us
> would prefer to have the meeting a week later, but aren't sure the
> contractor will wait another week for the decision.  Won't know until
later
> this week.
>
> If we're really feeling pressed for material, could we revive Acts of
Creation?
>
> Question for the conductrix: someone was asking if we would have keyboard
> accompaniment at the con.  Am I expected to provide that?  I have NOT
> mastered the art of playing parts and singing a part at the same time, so
if
> I'm playing, you only have one tenor.
>
> See you Wednesday.
>                                                 -- Mabel :-)
>
> At 04:53 PM 2001-02-09 -0500, Joe Kesselman (yclept Keshlam) wrote:
> >15 minutes of material: Sounds like it should be "OK Choralle and
> >One-Shots".
> >
> >We could try to actually _teach_ the Star Wars Canon, if folks feel
> >solid enough to try to lead an audience section  That'd soak up a
> >significant amount of time. But it would require that we be really solid
> >on it, and able to hold it against a confused audience.
> >
> >There's my extended version of Long Wing Feathers... but we haven't even
> >attempted that; unless folks are feeling _really_ brave it really is too
> >late to go for it now.
> >
> >Another option for filler would be a solo or three with folks backing up
> >choruses... which is largely what we're planning on doing with Cat Boys
> >anyway, nicht war? Again, I think we'd want to rehearse those a bit.
> >
> >
> >Personally, I'd rather have Sunday than Saturday, but Oh Well.
> >
> >Question: Are folks willing to commit to an hour or three of rehearsal
> >at the con? I'd suggest we wander off for some nontrivial amount of time
> >Friday evening, and I'd _STRONGLY_ suggest we do a final run-through
> >Saturday starting no later than noon and ending no later than 1 (to
> >allow an hour's rest before performance).
> >
> >Remember that we need practice time with our Translator(s) on Dies Ille.
> >
> >--
> >------------------------------------------------------
> >Joe Kesselman, http://www.lovesong.com/people/keshlam/
> >Opinions expressed are solely those of the author
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Mabel Liang mabel@twomeeps.com
>
>
>