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

[the Ginger Cat <gingi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Joe Kesselman wrote:
> Actually, what I'd _like_ to do with it as a performance piece is start
> with the original lyric, Aleluia, then switch into the Star Wars version
> for the round, catching the audience by surprise... then possibly have
> the first two voices  go back to Aleluia on their final (fractional)
> time through. But we need to get a bit more comfortable with it first.

I like that as an eventual project.
 
> > 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?
> Not a bad thought. We'll all be together and singing anyway...

Sounds reasonable to me.  We might lack a couple of folks who were
planning to do Saturday-only, though.
 
> > As for other stuff -- I know nothing about Long Wing Feathers
> I don't think we'd have it ready in time.

I agree.  We'll do it at some point, I promise.
 
> > Ballad of Gordy Dickson is -really- simple (or at least, -I've-
> > known it for  literally 29 years.... )
> That it is. I've never found a harmony I like for it, but maybe that's
> just because I've never made the effort...

"Clementine" is hard to harmonize, admittedly.  But I tink it would be a
one-off in his memory, in this case.

Eventually, I'd like to do one or two of Gordy's own songs.

--Rachel

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