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Sep. 12th, 2002 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Classes were good today. Discussing the myth and ritual of marraige and foods in America was great. (Hell, watching the faces of the class when the professor made people explain -why- a picture of a woman in a wedding dress, holding a fur muff filled with strawberries was sexual and virginal at the same time. Especially when she made one guy who wouldn't stop blushing say "Dripping muff" 3 times fast!)
On the other hand...chorus was paintful. No enjoyment at all, he was pissy, and people kept messing things up. Not fun.
To be honest, I think I'd have been happier if I'd just skipped.
We have a concert Wednesday. (Even if the publicity materials skip over the fact that we're singing with the touring choir from England we're singing with. 3 pages about the Claire College Choir, tho.)
I seriously think I'm going to drop chorus after Wednesday....unless I get a reason not to. But I don't see that.
I haven't felt joy in my singing for at least a year. Perhaps two....sometimes I get it back when I sing for myself, alone, quiet...but not with the chorus
Classes were good today. Discussing the myth and ritual of marraige and foods in America was great. (Hell, watching the faces of the class when the professor made people explain -why- a picture of a woman in a wedding dress, holding a fur muff filled with strawberries was sexual and virginal at the same time. Especially when she made one guy who wouldn't stop blushing say "Dripping muff" 3 times fast!)
On the other hand...chorus was paintful. No enjoyment at all, he was pissy, and people kept messing things up. Not fun.
To be honest, I think I'd have been happier if I'd just skipped.
We have a concert Wednesday. (Even if the publicity materials skip over the fact that we're singing with the touring choir from England we're singing with. 3 pages about the Claire College Choir, tho.)
I seriously think I'm going to drop chorus after Wednesday....unless I get a reason not to. But I don't see that.
I haven't felt joy in my singing for at least a year. Perhaps two....sometimes I get it back when I sing for myself, alone, quiet...but not with the chorus
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Date: 2002-09-12 10:05 pm (UTC)Hm. Singing? Perhaps chorus is not for you then. Possiblities . . . the song selections do not speak to your heart, and are not what you need to sing out . . . being drowned out by so many others and never really hearing yourself is causing you to feel a lack of joy . . . the happiness of just singing is drained of colour by the rigidity of the scales and a teacher who demands you follow along in such a way . . .
My suggestion? Sing out for yourself. Sing out whenever you feel happy. Go to some cheesy karaoke bar with friends, get slightly inebriated and belt out the corniest song that makes you grin. Call up your sweet lady and sing to her on the phone . . . :::hugs::: You'll find your voice again. You'll find your joy. ::kisses his cheek:: Be well!