I *still* can't get over how awesome this is!






Edit: And I managed to embed it properly on only the third try! Go me!

Yes, I'm bored :D


Optional RULES:
1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag at least 10 friends (make me #11 so I can see your results). Gah. Do I have to?
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
6. Have Fun!


IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
'Cloud Nine' - Evanesence. Well, that's pretty chirpy of me :-)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
'Reverie' - Brooke Fraser. Well yup, most of the time I am off in my own world, thank you very much.

( Cut! Cut! CUT!!!! )
Hum. I think this proves more than ever the utter randomness of things more than anything deep and meaningful :-P

     A few days ago, me and four others went up to Auckland.
     We were all from my A Cappella singing group, which is a type of choir only more fun. Ours is run by a really nice woman called Annie and we're really lucky to have her because she's very good.  We were Tee, whose car we were all squashed into, and who is a lovely lady who sings alto (medium-voice) for my A Capella group and always surprises me by being interested in things like clarinets and classical music. Also Gee, Annie's husband and the best (and only) tenor in A Capella , Me, My lovely friend Bee and Eryl, who is an elderly woman who loves music... and she's very good at it. We did a musical together a few years ago.
     Anywho, this talented bunch, and where were we going? Well, we were going to Town Hall to see the Messiah.
Yes... THAT Messiah. Handel's Messiah. You know, the one with the Hallelujah chorus in it? That one? Anyway, the Auckland Choral were putting it on and Annie, who sings for them, had got us tickets.
     So we did... and I am so, so glad that I went, because I almost didn't.  But how could I have missed this... this phenomenal music. It was marvellous. We were sitting at the very end of the circle, just above the musicians (first and second violins, violas, cellos, a bass, bassoon, two oboes, two trumpets,a timpani, a harpischord and a full-blown pipe organ... sighhh...) and with terriffic views of the choir. And we sat there, the five of us, for two and a half hours with our mouths open. * The four soloists were good, the orchestra was good, but the choir... the choir, all hudred-odd of them, made the most glorious sound I've ever heard. I just can't describe the impact of all those voices in perfect harmony, ducking and diving over and under each other but doing it all so gracefully... it made me want to sit there and listen forever.
     My favourite bit would have to be the Hallelujah chorus. Even if it is used 90% of the time as a farcical steriotype for shurch music. It was Brilliant. The best attempt at putting emotion into music I have ever heard. And the harmonies were sooo  good.
Sigh... and there is a tradition dating back to the very first showing of the Messiah, at which King George of England was so impressed by the Hallelujah chorus that he stood up. So of course everyone else in the building copied him - you cannot be seated when the king is not. And since then it has become a tradition to stand for the hallulujah chorus. And we did. It was such a cool bit, because it was like taking part - if a very small part - in that music.
     Also, I am very glad of the Auckland Choral's very own tradition of performing the Messiah every Christmas. Isn't that cool? Dating back to when thre choir was first formed, way back in the 1800s. Put this is perspective - we're a young country. The first European pioneers were fresh off, the boat, and what did they do? They got together and formed a choir. Brilliant.
     Next year? I'll be there.

*Well, mine was... i'd never heard live Classical music before.