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[sanura]

:D
Yes.

So, Houston Chamber Choir's pretty good.

Sight-reading first rehearsal was around the (best) performance level of HSC or any other (better) choir I've been in. Even Western Wind. Except bigger. It's not that small, which gives me room to make my catchbreaths in the middles of longish phrases.

Gzhg. :D

Music: also :D

First concert is September 18 and 20, full of Ave Marias. It goes:
Ave Regina Caelorum (Victoria)
Ne Timeas Maria (Victoria)
The White Dove (Brahms)
A Hymn to the Virgin (Britten; he wrote it at age 16 and it's perfect, makes me hate him so hard)
A Hymn to the Mother of God (Tavener)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Victoria)
Ave Maria (Verdi; yes, the crazy-scale exercise one)
Magnificat (Pärt; yes, the one I got to do in Exeter Cathedral, except this time it will be SO GOOD)
Ave Maria (Bruckner; nearly as good as Os Justi, an achievement for Bruckner)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Salve Regina (Victoria)
Ave Maria (BIEBL: MY FAVORITE PIECE EVER I AM A SAP)
Regina Caeli Laetare (Victoria)
Ave Maris Stella (Grieg; I have somehow never sung this before and it's gorgeous)
Stabat Mater (Palestrina/Anerio)
Assumpta Est Maria (Palestrina)

SO YES. Writhe and thrash in jealousy. For this is :D

ETA: AND THEY'RE PAYING ME