We had a guest conductor tonight, Matti Lazar, one of the biggest names in Jewish choral music. He’s in town for an event at Temple Emanuel over the weekend. He rehearsed us in Pischu Li (the Sholom Secunda setting of some of Psalm 118), a setting of By the Waters of Babylon (ps 137), and a couple of others. His emphasis is on how the intervals in the music, and other features of the music, communicate the meaning. Also, like (darn! I can’t remember her name now! the woman from DC who worked with Koleinu a couple of years ago), he says you have to feel what you’re singing first, then sing, and it comes out with the meaning you want.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile my mittens are have cuff ribbing and are growing the gauntlet part, I mean the part past the real cuff that Anna Zilboorg shows in Magnificent Mittens<\/u>.<\/p>\n
I went to Lexington to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned this morning. The dentist agrees with the periodontist that I need to get a tooth extracted. I’ve been trying to resist doing it, but the time seems to have come.<\/p>\n
As long as I was in Lexington, I stopped in Wild and Woolly and got some yarn (Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed, “brindle” color, a very tweedy grey with white, warm light brown, and light yellow touches, 85% wool, 10% silk, 5% cashmere) to make a warmer cap. The one I’ve been wearing most of last winter and all this one so far just wasn’t up to the wind chill of last Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I started re-rushing the rocking chair, and it got too late to take or process pictures. But maybe another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had a guest conductor tonight, Matti Lazar, one of the biggest names in Jewish choral music. He’s in town for an event at Temple Emanuel over the weekend. He rehearsed us in Pischu Li (the Sholom Secunda setting of some of Psalm 118), a setting of By the Waters of Babylon (ps 137), and … <\/p>\n