Relatively Ignorant Blog

On Sunday I sang the biggest solo gig of my life so far: Elijah in Mendelssohn’s wonderful oratorio of that name. It was at the Lake Kawana Community Centre on the Sunshine Coast. (The hall has an easy natural acoustic – a rare beast when most hall builders don’t bother with catering for unamplified performance.)

The organisers opened the huge folding windows open at the side of the hall during the rehearsal and left them open during the first half of the performance. While we were singing the beautiful quartet chorale Cast thy burden upon the Lord, a crow outside the hall decided to join in and could be very clearly heard through the open windows.

Luckily for us, the crow chose to sing in E♭, the key of Cast thy burden.

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The newest instalment of Australian Idol has just started. Louise and the boys watch it and have a laugh at the no-hopers and jokers (and the judges too). I can’t bear to watch, mainly because of the no-hopers, but also because of the ‘good’ ones.

What I see and hear, apart from a very high proportion of mediocre singing ability, is an apalling lack of originality. I just see all these people trying to be someone else. Someone who sings with soul. Someone who sounds American. Anyone but themselves.

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Sometimes you get surprised by good service. We were last week when we discovered our fridge was warming up (the ice cream was more cream than ice).

Louise rang Fisher & Paykel on Monday and a serviceman came on Tuesday. He told us that the fridge was losing gas and that it need to go back to the service centre to have the leak fixed. Oh dear.

Then the good news. This fridge is still within its five-year warranty period (by three months) and will be fixed by F&P without charge to us. Also, they will lend us a fridge while ours is being fixed. On Wednesday a replacement (same model) was wheeled in and ours taken away to be fixed.

Wow. That is good service.

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