I'm off to my Monday evening choir rehearsal, along with my friend Lisa, who lives two buildings over, and my friend Michelle, who I used to work with, and my friend Alison, who I grew up with in Jamaica and who now also lives in New York. We are four of a choral group of 28 voices, a beautifully diverse group in terms of age and ethnicity, and best of all, they are a quirky bunch. I love quirks in people. I love it when people can't help but express exactly who they are, and so Monday nights are a pleasant, stress-free respite from the daily grind. This term, one of our selections is Ave Verum, in Latin, which Alison and I sang eons ago, when we were in high school and part of the Queens Girls Choir. We first learned the song during our two-week summer workshop in the country, at a girls boarding school in Malvern. I am taken right back there every time we pull out that piece of music. It's pretty amazing how the words all came back to me, as if they had been waiting, all these decades, in a gentle groove in my brain. Oh, cab's here. Gotta go!
Beautiful, beautiful images. This is such a good thing you do for yourself.
ReplyDeleteI bet you laugh until it hurts!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun group as does your posse. Enjoy. It is nice to hear you so upbeat.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like fun. And memories are funny things, aren't they? Have an excellent evening!
ReplyDeleteDo they ever tape your choir because I'd love to hear it! It sounds like so much fun -- I often think about doing something like that.
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to sing in a choir as an adult. I am Jewish and don't really know where I'd do that. I must explore. It sounds like so much fun, especially with friends!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing what lives in our brains and how detailed our memories can be, especially when set to music. To this day I can't say the Preamble to the Constitution, but I can sing it, thanks to Schoolhouse Rock!
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