When I went in to Open Choral practice at the College Chapel it was sunny and warm (well, warm in comparison to recent days, not what I would normally call warm). An hour later when we were done, it was raining and cold. I had heard tales of drastic weather change but this is a little silly.
British Climate 9
Devon 0
Oh and how was choral practice you might ask? Let's just say I didn't sign up to audition. Tonight they held an open rehearsal followed by singing this evening's Evensong service to give people a chance to see what it was like before auditions start later this week. I thought I would go just to be able to say I sang once in the Chapel at a service but it turns out they sing some seriously hard stuff with little to no accompaniment or rehearsal. The first piece I saw was in Latin, containing very few words I knew how to pronounce, so I was happy when we turned to the next song. Turns out the English wasn't any easier to understand/sing. At one point tonight I chanted/sang:
"Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
Philistia, triumph thou because of me."
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