The Choir Conductor’s Invitation
Warning!
We’ve nothing to offer to impress, no superior qualifications, no memorable achievements to recommend our selves.
Our ten members are 50 -, 60-, 70-ers and some almost 80.
They have never had music, singing lessons before.
We started singing, training, aged, over 50 years old.
My organist had never been to a school for music, neither me.
We exercize without a singing, music teacher.
Etc, etc, … as not to bore you.
We have no committee for this concert. We do, work, bear the costs ourselves which happily amounts to almost nothing. Ha, ha. We only have our boldness to present this concert in our own church. This is how we sing after 10 years of hard training.
It’s great when we also could sing the most beautiful pieces, even though they’re above our abilities with all the risks involved. We don’t just have to reach the F but reach so high as the B. So don’t you be terrified to hear a shrill long Bes or a B we almost couldn’t reach.
Yet, we’re grateful, proud to stand on our own to have this concert, despite our relatively old age, despite the difficulties and accidents that may occur.
And we would record it on VCD, so we will live “for ever” as long as when we replay it again on the player.
Lest you should regret, be sorry after such a lot of dissuasions and still insist to visit my concert, phone me, I’ll send you the invitation free.
The Choir Master
To me, he (this Choir Master) confided: “So do I know that my invitation is send to some one extraordinary whom I never would forget. That’s my secret and he musn’t know.”
April 2009
Warning!
We’ve nothing to offer to impress, no superior qualifications, no memorable achievements to recommend our selves.
Our ten members are 50 -, 60-, 70-ers and some almost 80.
They have never had music, singing lessons before.
We started singing, training, aged, over 50 years old.
My organist had never been to a school for music, neither me.
We exercize without a singing, music teacher.
Etc, etc, … as not to bore you.
We have no committee for this concert. We do, work, bear the costs ourselves which happily amounts to almost nothing. Ha, ha. We only have our boldness to present this concert in our own church. This is how we sing after 10 years of hard training.
It’s great when we also could sing the most beautiful pieces, even though they’re above our abilities with all the risks involved. We don’t just have to reach the F but reach so high as the B. So don’t you be terrified to hear a shrill long Bes or a B we almost couldn’t reach.
Yet, we’re grateful, proud to stand on our own to have this concert, despite our relatively old age, despite the difficulties and accidents that may occur.
And we would record it on VCD, so we will live “for ever” as long as when we replay it again on the player.
Lest you should regret, be sorry after such a lot of dissuasions and still insist to visit my concert, phone me, I’ll send you the invitation free.
The Choir Master
To me, he (this Choir Master) confided: “So do I know that my invitation is send to some one extraordinary whom I never would forget. That’s my secret and he musn’t know.”
April 2009
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