Singin' in the Slush

So on top of Aida rehearsals, I'm also singing lots and lots with the Philadelphia Singers. Right now we're performing this concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra of Berio and Wagner. The Berio piece is just men, and it's in the first half. The Wagner is a concert version of Act III of Parsifal, and the women don't come in until the last 3 minutes of the piece. Since we represent the Holy Grail, they decided that the women should be relegated to the balcony so our voices can waft down as if from heaven. As a result, we've had to show up at intermission, climb over people to get to our seats, and sit through an hour and a half of the most boring Wagnerian posturing to sing 12 measures at the very end. Argh. Well, at least it's a paycheck. And tomorrow, our last performance, we're doing it at Carnegie Hall in New York.

The next Philly Singers thing is a concert version of the John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer with the Curtis Institute. I have no idea how that's going to go, but since it's John Adams, it'll probably be pretty hard. Throughout all these rehearsals, I'll still be rehearsing and/or performing Aida and still working at the word processing agency a couple days a week. January has three days off for me. Only three. And February is starting to fill up too.