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kayreStarted the day with Morning Prayer, more ethereal music. Plenary address from the person I shared Italian ice with last night :D
A workshop with music for which "ethereal" doesn't say enough. At one point the leader taught us a melody, said "now make up parts," and we sang for nearly 10 minutes while circulating around the room, creating little groups of two or three and then moving on.
Lunch and then my presentation. There are so many sectional options each hour that my in-person audience was small, but I understand there were a lot of folk on Zoom. The smaller audience did mean that I really wasn't nervous at all, and it was fun to play a concert grand! I think it was well received; there were some good questions, and one person talked to me extensively afterwards.
Tonight's activity included a banquet for which the dietary options were useless for me, followed by a hymn festival off site. I'm ready for some down time, so I ate in my room and am live streaming the festival and crocheting. It's at a black church, and it's fun to listen to the leaders try to teach all the white folk to sing in their style. They were wise enough to write most of it out rather than try to truly teach improvisational singing in one evening!
A workshop with music for which "ethereal" doesn't say enough. At one point the leader taught us a melody, said "now make up parts," and we sang for nearly 10 minutes while circulating around the room, creating little groups of two or three and then moving on.
Lunch and then my presentation. There are so many sectional options each hour that my in-person audience was small, but I understand there were a lot of folk on Zoom. The smaller audience did mean that I really wasn't nervous at all, and it was fun to play a concert grand! I think it was well received; there were some good questions, and one person talked to me extensively afterwards.
Tonight's activity included a banquet for which the dietary options were useless for me, followed by a hymn festival off site. I'm ready for some down time, so I ate in my room and am live streaming the festival and crocheting. It's at a black church, and it's fun to listen to the leaders try to teach all the white folk to sing in their style. They were wise enough to write most of it out rather than try to truly teach improvisational singing in one evening!
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Date: 2025-07-15 08:36 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Irjf0ims8
Except I was better dressed, and played a full concert grand! I also altered one hymn to natural minor, to reflect folk saying that made more sense in both Native and shape note contexts. I'm not utterly convinced about that; not all of the minor key tunes work well that way, and Commuck was pretty thoroughly embedded in European style music. But MONTAUK works-- and is easier to play on dulcimer with a flat 7th :D
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Date: 2025-08-14 05:08 pm (UTC)