Yes, to to blow my own trumpet for a moment, this is indeed the 100th post on 'Relative Pitch'; that's 100 moments of sartorial brilliance and unexpected randomness...or something like that. So Wednesday night was a run through a number of pieces we are doing for our Christmas concerts. By now the Rudsambeelets are beginning to wander around in comedy Santa hats and beginning to write their wish-list letters to the Big Man.
And so it was back to 'Deck the Halls' which we are attempting properly this year. Maestro Boy encouraged us to (and I quote) "make it sound ridiculous". We never need to be asked twice of course. The aim was to give it a bit of life. This version of 'Deck the Halls' is a bit of a comedy take on an old favourite anyways. As I have probably mentioned before (there have been 100 posts you know) each part is encouraged to sing in peculiar ways e.g. 'teasing', 'inviting' etc. We decided to make our own Rudsambeelet versions so the basses need to be 'beery' and the tenors should be 'coarse'. The men, of course, did admirably.
We also returned to 'Susser de Glocken Nie Klingen' which led to Rachel's humorous and, indeed, insightful comment, "what is the final chord supposed to be?" A question that, I must admit, took about four hours to answer. The sopranos have a very easy final sequence i.e. even easy by soprano standards i.e. one note, the same note. So, to be honest, we didn't really appreciate the horrors of the final chord for the rest of the Rudsambeelets. It is very tough indeed but, as usual, we cracked it before the end. Huzzah!
And so we press on with Christmas excitement. Tickets are now out and are selling only slightly less quickly than those for the last U2 concert. Get them quick fans. We are going to do Mrs Fardell's 'Shepherd's Call' with dynamics and everything this Wednesday. What larks!
CSW
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