Notes From The Choir Loft

This week we were treated to newly alphabetized choir folders! ...completely disrupting my normal organization rule: last rehearsal's order, then performance order, then special-sectioned by whether I've ever thought we were singing it next week, but it turned out we weren't, and then the two lone songs I thought were still alphabetized but it turns out I mixed up whether song titles starting with "The" belonged with "T"s or with their second-word counterparts. I suppose I will have to muddle through as best I can for the next few weeks... In other news, it was a Monty Python-heavy night, with the Knights who say Ni and the Killer Joke skit , presented here conveniently captioned in an unspecified Slavic language. We are truly living in a glorious age for the internet.  And I'm not sure whether to root for or against a children's book collection of Michael's childhood adventures... "A is for Alligator... and Amputation.....

Well folks, unless you are Gonzaga, South Carolina, Oregon, or Carolina.... my sincere commiseration. Personally... I'm pulling for Anyone But Chapel Hill . Boom. That's right. I went there. (But I'd really like South Carolina to take it even though my bracket has Gonzaga...) But with that said, it's officially April, and I suppose time to move on.... back to Netflix, and waiting for football season. March Sadness, indeed. This Week In Music Lit: The march-like quality of Handel's 'Lift Up Your Heads' is because French Overtures included a march for royalty, who liked to make an entrance. And the previously mentioned antiphonal effect echos the origins of Psalm 24, which is implicitly about the King entering Jerusalem and the Biblical accounts that the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem involved two choirs, answering each other. (I may have made some of that up. Pls verify with someone who took better notes.) Handel was theatr...