Mar 09 2008
Lovin’ at the church
This evening we saw Helen’s mum sing with the Garleton Singers at St Cuthbert’s — they did some Brahms love songs, there was a piano duet by Schubert, and then after the interval the all-conquering Carmina Burana. It seems you are allowed to sing about drinking and hot sex in church, as long as you do it in Latin.
I enjoyed this one more than previous trips to see the Garleton Singers. It really helps to know the tunes so we’ve been listening to some of the Brahms in the last couple of days. And of course everyone knows Carl Orff, right? He appears in enough football/car/deoderant adverts.
It was pretty rockin’ anyway, and the reprise of O Fortuna had a little extra excitement because the timpanist’s music kept falling off the stand. But, quite frankly, if you play timpani and don’t know how O Fortuna goes then you’re doing it wrong. She just kept playing through…
2 Responses to “Lovin’ at the church”
SEED: Big Blue Brain.
Glad you enjoyed it. The following night in Haddington the choir and soloists were equally brilliant and instead of tympanic trouble the pianists had interrupted play the dismantle the keyboard of one of the pianos and eventually extracted a big bit of fluff. Keep music live I say, it’s much more fun