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After last night's rehearsal I was trying not to get my hopes up because it was still not for sure and it all depended on my ability to transcribe a complex Queen piano part in the next few days and maybe arrange some guitar solos for our excellent sopranos, but I can’t just keep quiet about it because now it's ON and the terrible Bohemian Rhapsody arrangement we rehearsed Monday night is out and we're doing mine. Sonja mentioned to Bob that I had one that was better, and he emailed me before I even got home asking about it.
I thought I’d probably peaked in grad school, when the chair of the CI department asked me to pick a band to back me up and arrange the vocal backups for my favorite CI voalists. And we sang it at the Feast of Music gala fundraiser, where dinner was $1000 a plate or something. And now I'm singing it at the swank fundraiser for this internationally touring chamber choir. WHAT. Behold, the email I got when I told him the arrangement was for 4-part choir and soloist, and that I hadn't written the piano part down:
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That’s great! Bruce is pretty good about filling in a general outline so you wouldn’t need to give him every note. And how would feel about being the soloist?
]
I KNOW RIGHT
ME, SINGING FREDDIE
AGAIN
ONLY THIS TIME I GET PAID
And then, behold, the email I received, upon sending Bob my choral skeleton version without the solo or piano part (since Schockett is a god and learned it by ear, I didn't have to transcribe it):
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Ryan,
What you have here looks great but Bruce will need the piano part filled out somehow along with the solo line. The choral parts look ready to go.
Do you have time for this and would be it fun? I don’t want to trap you just because you mentioned something about your arrangement to Sonja. But…(no pressure) we’d all get a kick out of singing your arrangement.
]
IT IS ON.
I answered him with perhaps more enthusiasm than entirely wise, and he affirmed I should go for it. I was so excited my heart beat too fast and my extremities got cold and I sweated. So excited it was possibly bad for my health. I got most of the piano transcription done this evening, all the way up to the 12/8, because there are various transcriptions out there already and I don't have to do all the nitpicky piano work totally on my own, which is convenient. Especially since this is to be rehearsed next week. Man I'm gonna put in so many expression and articulation markings Bob's not gonna have a single note to make.
THIS SONG IS BASICALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT SONG TO ME AND REGGIE IN MUSICAL HISTORY (TIED EVEN WITH RACHMANINOFF ALL-NIGHT VIGIL) I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME
I thought I’d probably peaked in grad school, when the chair of the CI department asked me to pick a band to back me up and arrange the vocal backups for my favorite CI voalists. And we sang it at the Feast of Music gala fundraiser, where dinner was $1000 a plate or something. And now I'm singing it at the swank fundraiser for this internationally touring chamber choir. WHAT. Behold, the email I got when I told him the arrangement was for 4-part choir and soloist, and that I hadn't written the piano part down:
[
That’s great! Bruce is pretty good about filling in a general outline so you wouldn’t need to give him every note. And how would feel about being the soloist?
]
I KNOW RIGHT
ME, SINGING FREDDIE
AGAIN
ONLY THIS TIME I GET PAID
And then, behold, the email I received, upon sending Bob my choral skeleton version without the solo or piano part (since Schockett is a god and learned it by ear, I didn't have to transcribe it):
[
Ryan,
What you have here looks great but Bruce will need the piano part filled out somehow along with the solo line. The choral parts look ready to go.
Do you have time for this and would be it fun? I don’t want to trap you just because you mentioned something about your arrangement to Sonja. But…(no pressure) we’d all get a kick out of singing your arrangement.
]
IT IS ON.
I answered him with perhaps more enthusiasm than entirely wise, and he affirmed I should go for it. I was so excited my heart beat too fast and my extremities got cold and I sweated. So excited it was possibly bad for my health. I got most of the piano transcription done this evening, all the way up to the 12/8, because there are various transcriptions out there already and I don't have to do all the nitpicky piano work totally on my own, which is convenient. Especially since this is to be rehearsed next week. Man I'm gonna put in so many expression and articulation markings Bob's not gonna have a single note to make.
THIS SONG IS BASICALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT SONG TO ME AND REGGIE IN MUSICAL HISTORY (TIED EVEN WITH RACHMANINOFF ALL-NIGHT VIGIL) I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME
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