Auditioning
I got a nice compliment from a coworker on yesterday’s choral performance. Specifically to me, you understand, not a general “y’all sung great!” Though we emphatically didn’t suck. For a group that practiced all of three times together, we were pretty damn decent.
(Much credit goes to our organizer and lyricist. She wrote stuff it was just impossible to miss with. “We Wish You Would Pay Attention” was a general favorite.)
What stands out to me is that I haven’t sung so badly in, well, ever. My low range has gone missing entirely, my high range still peters out at the top, and I’ve utterly lost the ability to transition smoothly from high to low. Disgraceful. I used to be a second alto, dammit. Where did my voice go?
Well, I know the answer to that. It’s vanished into the howling void of “haven’t practiced in years.” So that’ll just have to change. I’ve asked to audition for the local community choir. I got shot down the last community choir I auditioned for, but that was then, this is now, and I don’t want to lose my singing voice entirely.
And the next time I have a few hundred dollars to spare, I’ll send my recorders to von Huene for revoicing. I’m so out-of-practice that I really need to work with instruments in good trim.