Star-Spangled Banner
Sep. 24th, 2004 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
av8rmikeAt the symphony last night, they opened the program with the "Star-Spangled Banner", which seemed a little weird until the concertmaster announced that it was the beginning of their Celebrity Series (as opposed to the Favorites Series, which began 2 weeks ago). ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gingy commented to me that it was a really hard national anthem to sing, and more patriotic than, "Oh Canada". If she noticed that I was singing the bass part instead of embarrassing myself by singing the melody, she didn't comment. =)
Anyway, I mentioned that someone out there was petitioning to change the "official" key from B-flat major to G major, lowering the key for those of us not blessed with access to soprano registers. Here's that website:
http://singournationalanthem.com/
Oh, other unrelated musical stuff: My teacher really surprised me last night. I brought all my orchestra music because I had just a few questions on techniques. I was only intending to take maybe 10 minutes, but we spent almost 1/2 an hour looking over the hard parts and talking about the two orchestras. I feel like I have a much better handle on everything for next week's rehearsals.
gingy commented to me that it was a really hard national anthem to sing, and more patriotic than, "Oh Canada". If she noticed that I was singing the bass part instead of embarrassing myself by singing the melody, she didn't comment. =)Anyway, I mentioned that someone out there was petitioning to change the "official" key from B-flat major to G major, lowering the key for those of us not blessed with access to soprano registers. Here's that website:
http://singournationalanthem.com/
Oh, other unrelated musical stuff: My teacher really surprised me last night. I brought all my orchestra music because I had just a few questions on techniques. I was only intending to take maybe 10 minutes, but we spent almost 1/2 an hour looking over the hard parts and talking about the two orchestras. I feel like I have a much better handle on everything for next week's rehearsals.
