Shabbat Shinyness
Jun. 21st, 2008 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitLast night I led kabbalat shabbat, since no one else was leading it. This time I actually succeeded in using the tunes I wanted for Lecha Dodi, though I did mess up one of the verses by starting the verse after it, but luckily I caught it in time. And I did a decent job leading.
Afterwards, MB, my friend HS who was from UMD but now lives in Boston, and I went to EY's for gaming. While we were playing Settlers, MB said that I should try out for Techiya, MIT's Jewish acapella group, and that I have a really powerful voice, and that it would be good for solos. (Me? Solos?) The music director of the group, J, was also at services then, though I didn't know she was the music director when MB introduced me to her. So I'll audition in the fall.
Also, after a year of gaming with HRSFA on a regular basis, I finally won a HRSFA game of Settlers of Catan. For most of the game I wasn't the scary one, but then I got two road building cards and stole longest road, got another development card which was a victory point, and then had enough at the end to build the last settlement to get me to 10. Had I not won that turn, MB would have won on his.
So now I don't need to win Settlers with HRSFA again, though obviously I like winning.
This morning J was at services, and MB had told her that I was interested in auditioning, and she asked me what part I sang. For a second I was a bit surprised that she even had to ask, seeing as she had been at Friday night services, and I'm so obviously an alto, especially when I'm leading services and sing everything in alto keys. So I told her I sing somewhere between alto and tenor, and she said "good! That means you have a chesty alto voice which is good for solos, and we like to have a diversity of voices..." Etc. They have one opening for each voice part, so we'll see whether or not I'll actually get in. MB thinks I can.
Overall, it's nice to have the validation that I actually can sing, even if I'm 5 years out of practice in terms of anything that isn't service leading.
Afterwards, MB, my friend HS who was from UMD but now lives in Boston, and I went to EY's for gaming. While we were playing Settlers, MB said that I should try out for Techiya, MIT's Jewish acapella group, and that I have a really powerful voice, and that it would be good for solos. (Me? Solos?) The music director of the group, J, was also at services then, though I didn't know she was the music director when MB introduced me to her. So I'll audition in the fall.
Also, after a year of gaming with HRSFA on a regular basis, I finally won a HRSFA game of Settlers of Catan. For most of the game I wasn't the scary one, but then I got two road building cards and stole longest road, got another development card which was a victory point, and then had enough at the end to build the last settlement to get me to 10. Had I not won that turn, MB would have won on his.
So now I don't need to win Settlers with HRSFA again, though obviously I like winning.
This morning J was at services, and MB had told her that I was interested in auditioning, and she asked me what part I sang. For a second I was a bit surprised that she even had to ask, seeing as she had been at Friday night services, and I'm so obviously an alto, especially when I'm leading services and sing everything in alto keys. So I told her I sing somewhere between alto and tenor, and she said "good! That means you have a chesty alto voice which is good for solos, and we like to have a diversity of voices..." Etc. They have one opening for each voice part, so we'll see whether or not I'll actually get in. MB thinks I can.
Overall, it's nice to have the validation that I actually can sing, even if I'm 5 years out of practice in terms of anything that isn't service leading.
