Holy Week...
Apr. 4th, 2015 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreThe fun began for me in the wee hours of April Fool's Day, when one of our bed risers spontaneously collapsed, waking my husband and me from sound sleep. Seriously, if anything was moving, it was a cat. So anyway, after leaping out of bed in shock, we discovered that we were both feeling unwell, in different ways. Scary as not only is it Holy Week, but he had a major work deadline looming. In the morning he headed off to the doctor, while I treated my less severe symptoms and soldiered on.
Thursday was my first challenge. Not only did I have an evening service; before it I had a rehearsal with the handbell choir, and then a brief joint rehearsal of bells and choir, preparing an Easter anthem. Both parts of rehearsal went very well; with a good warmup on Sunday I think the anthem will be very impressive. Then I finished warming the choir up for the evening service; that required more mental adjustment than actual singing. After getting the adrenalin running with the big Easter anthem, I had to bring them back to a quiet frame of mind for the very gentle Maundy Thursday anthems.
A month ago I was feeling a deep need to sink my teeth into some really challenging music; what I settled on was a very eerie Lubeck fugue, which I played as prelude Thursday night. It went very well, and I think set the mood for the evening perfectly.
The service seemed to drain the last of my energy; by the time I got home I felt quite ill, and yesterday I slept nearly all day. I eventually went down to the church late in the afternoon, and did about half as much practice as I intended. The service went beautifully again; a highlight for me was that my daughter sang alto in the a cappella quartet that sang the special music for the evening.
And now it is Saturday, and I still feel like a limp dishrag, so will not practice at all. I'm praying that a thorough warmup tomorrow will be enough to get me through my organ music, and that by tomorrow I'll have energy to get through the rest!
Thursday was my first challenge. Not only did I have an evening service; before it I had a rehearsal with the handbell choir, and then a brief joint rehearsal of bells and choir, preparing an Easter anthem. Both parts of rehearsal went very well; with a good warmup on Sunday I think the anthem will be very impressive. Then I finished warming the choir up for the evening service; that required more mental adjustment than actual singing. After getting the adrenalin running with the big Easter anthem, I had to bring them back to a quiet frame of mind for the very gentle Maundy Thursday anthems.
A month ago I was feeling a deep need to sink my teeth into some really challenging music; what I settled on was a very eerie Lubeck fugue, which I played as prelude Thursday night. It went very well, and I think set the mood for the evening perfectly.
The service seemed to drain the last of my energy; by the time I got home I felt quite ill, and yesterday I slept nearly all day. I eventually went down to the church late in the afternoon, and did about half as much practice as I intended. The service went beautifully again; a highlight for me was that my daughter sang alto in the a cappella quartet that sang the special music for the evening.
And now it is Saturday, and I still feel like a limp dishrag, so will not practice at all. I'm praying that a thorough warmup tomorrow will be enough to get me through my organ music, and that by tomorrow I'll have energy to get through the rest!
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Date: 2015-04-04 12:47 pm (UTC)Lovely to hear that all went so well otherwise! I hope you feel better quickly.