Neil’s got some sort of intestinal thing going on…not sure if it’s diverticulitis or a hernia or just old age at this point. The good news is that she’s happy…the bad news is that now that choir is back in session Neil can’t sit with her when she’s cantoring unless it’s not at the choir mass…that means he will have to go back to what he and a couple of other husbands always called the choir groupie section of the congregation. Her director Marge decided that the soprano section really needed the help…so asked Connie to move over permanently and sing soprano and descant parts exclusively. So…the last time there was choir which was over a year ago…she was singing alto most of the time but came over and sang the soprano descant parts as well…that’s the part that goes really high and has the elaborate runs and such much like a coloratura soprano would sing…then back to the alto section for most hymns. In fact…most of the so called sopranos aren’t really sopranos at all but simply can’t do anything but sing the melody line.Ĭonnie…on the other hand…is really sort of a mezzo soprano actually…she’s got a much better range than most singers do.
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And very few of them…men or women…can read music or sing anything but the melody line. She’s been sining alto for many years because she can actually read the music and sing the non melody line in the various 4 part harmony music the choir does…and altos are pretty rare in her choir…for a half dozen years or so there have really only been about 5 of them compared to 15 or so sopranos…but at least they’re not as minuscule a number as the men in the tenor and bass section, there might be 5 or so men total most of the time. Last week…Connie’s choir rehearsal started up again for the season. The title by the way…comes from a guy who had a lot of strange sayings…Yogi Berra.Īlthough…we did have a couple of newsworthy items…all it might depend on your definition of newsworthy. Yep…either that or Groundhog Day…it just seems like it’s the same old same old day after day.