Scary because we are doing a boatload of pieces from the Messiah and . . . we've kind of forgotten a couple of them, including the final number. We started off with the final one our very first week back in the middle of January and have practiced it again here and there, but not in the past few weeks. It wasn't horrible, but there were a couple of places where the whole choir kind of stumbled along. I can see the director hitting that one hard next Tuesday at our last rehearsal. She was stressed.
The other one is No. 26 "All we like sheep have gone astray." Lots of difficult sixteenth notes in that one. Again, one we started off with but haven't done for a few weeks. I'll be practicing with an online Messiah tutoring site this week.
A funny about "All we like sheep": the director pointed out we were singing it as though it meant, "We all like sheep" as in mutton. This area is heavily Navajo and many Navajos, especially the older ones eat a LOT of sheep. I'll remember that the rest of my life every time I sing that song. :-)
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