22 August 2006
Crow in E-flat!
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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Well done Michael. I would like to hear you sing one day.