Monday
Jul. 14th, 2025 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreStarted the day with Morning Prayer, more ethereal music. Plenary address from the person I shared Italian ice with last night :D
A workshop with music for which "ethereal" doesn't say enough. At one point the leader taught us a melody, said "now make up parts," and we sang for nearly 10 minutes while circulating around the room, creating little groups of two or three and then moving on.
Lunch and then my presentation. There are so many sectional options each hour that my in-person audience was small, but I understand there were a lot of folk on Zoom. The smaller audience did mean that I really wasn't nervous at all, and it was fun to play a concert grand! I think it was well received; there were some good questions, and one person talked to me extensively afterwards.
Tonight's activity included a banquet for which the dietary options were useless for me, followed by a hymn festival off site. I'm ready for some down time, so I ate in my room and am live streaming the festival and crocheting. It's at a black church, and it's fun to listen to the leaders try to teach all the white folk to sing in their style. They were wise enough to write most of it out rather than try to truly teach improvisational singing in one evening!
A workshop with music for which "ethereal" doesn't say enough. At one point the leader taught us a melody, said "now make up parts," and we sang for nearly 10 minutes while circulating around the room, creating little groups of two or three and then moving on.
Lunch and then my presentation. There are so many sectional options each hour that my in-person audience was small, but I understand there were a lot of folk on Zoom. The smaller audience did mean that I really wasn't nervous at all, and it was fun to play a concert grand! I think it was well received; there were some good questions, and one person talked to me extensively afterwards.
Tonight's activity included a banquet for which the dietary options were useless for me, followed by a hymn festival off site. I'm ready for some down time, so I ate in my room and am live streaming the festival and crocheting. It's at a black church, and it's fun to listen to the leaders try to teach all the white folk to sing in their style. They were wise enough to write most of it out rather than try to truly teach improvisational singing in one evening!