alleluia.

i had the greatest afternoon today.

i went over to school, to the music practice rooms, and worked through the randall thompson alleluia. i sang that song in high school chorus, sophomore year...i loved it then, and i love it even more now, if that's indeed possible. wednesday i finally went to the sheet music store and bought myself a copy of it, so i can have it, read it, and sing through it at my own leisure. i spent two hours in the practice room playing through it, singing through it, and the time just slipped away. i finally had to stop when my voice got tired, but i'm definitely going to go back there again soon and play with that song. the alto part, which is what i sang those nine long years ago, is coming back to me...and i'm learning the soprano part as well. i want to sing this song in a choir at least one more time before i die. it's gorgeous, it's multi-layered, it comes to the best climax of any song i've ever heard...it's just perfect.

i guess my fawning about this song does no good if you've never heard it. so...hear it. (no, this isn't my high school chorus...it's a recording i found at school of the kansas city chorale doing it, eight or nine years ago.) i promise...it's worth it.

song lyric contest winner!

in the guess-the-song competition...we have a winner, and it's amazinggrace she got two quotes correct, with song title and performer...and she wins a beer. :D

here are the answers:

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