{"id":438,"date":"2009-06-22T20:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T03:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-06-24T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:07:49","slug":"a-day-of-beginnings-and-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/sacredmusic\/a-day-of-beginnings-and-endings","title":{"rendered":"A day of beginnings and endings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a day of great movement in my life, many things are in flux.<\/p>\n

First, I found out that the job opening which seemed possible at some point<\/a> has now slipped from my grasp.\u00a0 So the probability is now vanishingly small that I’m going to get an HP job in the next three weeks.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, my son returned safely from a wonderful trip to California, where he engaged with leading minds in the homebrew community and learned a great deal.\u00a0 Can’t wait to hear the scoop from him.<\/p>\n

On the downside, I’ve heard lots of bad news – relatives of friends dying, more people losing their jobs, and on and on.\u00a0 There’s a great number of people we need to pray for this week.<\/p>\n

But the big positive:\u00a0 We just began the 19th Sacred Music Colloquium<\/a> tonight.\u00a0 We started right off with a bang, singing Veni Creator Spiritus<\/em>.\u00a0 There’s absolutely nothing like hundreds of people coming together to sing a beautiful hymn like that – and doing it successfully!\u00a0 My heart leaps with joy.<\/p>\n

We practiced some other music for tomorrow’s Mass, with varying levels of confidence.\u00a0 Ah well, more work to do.<\/p>\n

I signed up for the polyphony choir being led by Jenny Donelson, and we had the first practice for that group tonight.\u00a0 The hymn O Salutaris Hostia<\/em> (Pierre de La Rue) actually came out in 4-part harmony pretty well after a few run-throughs.\u00a0 An attempt at solfege was a bit rockier, that exercises parts of my brain that aren’t turned on very well.<\/p>\n

But it’s only the first day.\u00a0 We wouldn’t want to get it perfect right from the beginning. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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