Blaaaaaahhh

I am so tired. I had a rehearsal in Yonkers last night with Muse's group, and it turns out that the other two girls are 16 years old! There's nothing wrong with high schoolers, except that they don't know quite as much, and their attention spans are fairly short. There's no way in hell we'll have the music memorized, which makes me feel better. I volunteered to bring my folding stand so that we could put one book of music in front for all of us to look at.

They're both smart, hard-working girls, which is a plus. One of them even plays the piano, which is even better. And they have good ears. But that stupid practice CD ended up being our detriment, because while I recognized that some of the harmonies being played on my practice CD were ridiculous and totally discounted them, the second soprano learned them really well. So we ended up having major problems...I couldn't find my note AT ALL, nor could I find any tonality. It was really frustrating. I told Muse I remembered the harmonies from when I did it back in the Girls' Chorus, and could we just do it that way? She was like, "I had no idea you knew what they were." I'm like, duh, everyone's done this (but I didn't say that). I just wrote out the parts while we were having dinner and handed it to the girl who plays the piano and told her to practice it.