People have been asking how long I've known Mon and been going to the singing weekends/weeks, so I checked with Elissa. She reckons Birmingham (the first Mon singing weekend) was in spring 1994, and Kintbury was the following year. That long!
One of the nice old ladies of St John's asked Mon if we'd be singing the Hallelujah Chorus. Mon told us amid amusement, but also said there are copies in the church library so we tried it and it works! 24-voice Messiah, heh.
Looks like we may be able to perform the Sandstrom (the o needs a wossname; it's Swedish). It sounds weird, but we get through it without stopping and finish together - the most important things of a performance ;).
Mon's Tip #whatever: To raise the soft palate for high notes, imagine it's a jellyfish doing that jellyfish swimming thing (demonstrated with hand rising, fingers opening and closing).
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