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| Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45933] |
Mon, 31 October 2011 23:37  |
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45939 is a reply to message #45933 ] |
Tue, 01 November 2011 01:20  |
EMoon
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Tonight we had dress rehearsal. David/Svengali (I can't call him Svengali in his maestro persona, when he's controlling an incredible number of singers [I don't know how many--literally packed into the space between the walls, the front pew, and the two steps up to what is normally the choir space...my guess is sixty to eighty), the organist, and the harpist]) had said "It's Halloween night, wear a costume." Most people did not. I was one who did. (So did one soprano in a '20s flapper costume, and one alto in a retro-70s long dress, very pretty.)
An astonishing number of people do not know the proper names of different swords. "Pretty foil," said one. "Pretty epee," said another. "I like your sabre," said another. To both I said, smiling and not clenching my teeth, "It's a rapier, thank you." The people who asked if I really fenced, or was it just a costume piece were fortunate I had not brought all my gear or they would have been treated to an impromptu lesson. Someone said "Is it really dangerous? I guess if you hit someone hard enough it would hurt." Sigh. If I hit someone full force thrust in the right place, it would kill them, despite the fat plastic blob Krazy-glued to the tip. That's why we're taught not to do that, and why in practice we wear steel protection around our vulnerable necks, so a mis-angled thrust to the chest doesn't skid up the breastbone and gak the larynx.
There is no place to put a rapier in a crush like that, so I consigned it (and the sword belt, hanger, and nice leather belt-pouch) to the blade case for the duration of practice, and also doffed the blue-lined-with-red silk mandelion and the hat. Aside from the big fencing shirt and the Attitude that even a half hour wearing steel gives me, I was back to being the dowdy aging alto in the second row, and thus...we sang. And sang. And sang. It was a good (but LOOOONNNNGGGG) rehearsal.
Someone said, "I don't think that's a costume...I think that's really you." Well...yes. That's really...part of me. The part that fencing controls by keeping it to the salle.
Oh--we have another return-to-singing that someone on one of my venues told me about...an older woman, 70=something, who had thought she was too old to sing is now back singing with a group and having a blast, I was told.
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45941 is a reply to message #45933 ] |
Tue, 01 November 2011 02:31 |
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Diane in MN
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When Penelope mentioned going I remembered [ . . .] He slimed me!
In the circles I move in, you don't have to remember that phrase; you use it all the time. 
The slimers in my house spent an unhappy couple of hours confined to the TV room while I answered the door for the few but spread out trick-or-treaters we get in our neighborhood. They amused themselves by messing it up. Halloween is not a nice night for dogs.
I suppose when I move on to cardigans I’ll decide that that’s performance too, and . . .
No, no, it will be fine. It's all knitting and purling, right?  And on reasonably-sized needles, too, so you can see your work. I am starting a sock class next week. Two-at-a-time socks, on a very long TEENY TINY circular needle. I foresee a fair amount of muttering in my future before actual socks appear.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45944 is a reply to message #45941 ] |
Tue, 01 November 2011 09:31 |
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glanalaw
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| Diane in MN wrote on Tue, 01 November 2011 02:31 |
I suppose when I move on to cardigans I’ll decide that that’s performance too, and . . .
No, no, it will be fine. It's all knitting and purling, right? And on reasonably-sized needles, too, so you can see your work. I am starting a sock class next week. Two-at-a-time socks, on a very long TEENY TINY circular needle. I foresee a fair amount of muttering in my future before actual socks appear.
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I've knit many, many socks (most of them were even in pairs!) but I have never managed to wrap my mind around the two-at-once-on-circular-needles approach. To me, the old-fashioned set of five double pointed needles is much more straightforward! More power to you, and perhaps you could give the rest of us a tutorial when you've mastered the technique! 
And YES. It's all knitting and purling (and one or two simple increase/decreases, which are just based on knitting and purling!) Once you can do those two stitches, you can do anything
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45945 is a reply to message #45944 ] |
Tue, 01 November 2011 09:39 |
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| glanalaw wrote on Tue, 01 November 2011 09:31 |
I've knit many, many socks (most of them were even in pairs!) but I have never managed to wrap my mind around the two-at-once-on-circular-needles approach. To me, the old-fashioned set of five double pointed needles is much more straightforward!
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I'm with you on the socks on double-points. I have knit two socks at a time on one circular needle before, but it's not my favorite way to knit socks At. All. I have friends who *love* two-at-a-time, though. For me, it takes away some of the fun.
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45957 is a reply to message #45933 ] |
Tue, 01 November 2011 23:50 |
jjmcgaffey
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She’s like the swallow, and it’s about a girl who apparently dies of love despite the fact that the bloke singing the song was apparently her lover and loved her. Backstory. I want the backstory.
How many verses are you singing? I Googled it, and found from four to eight - and the eight-verse one has a complete story.
http://www.songlyrics.com/blackburn-fiona/she-s-like-the-swa llow-lyrics/
She's pregnant, and he says he loves all women, not just her. _Then_ she lies down and dies - makes a lot more sense than the 4-verse version.
jjm
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #45960 is a reply to message #45944 ] |
Wed, 02 November 2011 04:05 |
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Diane in MN
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| glanalaw wrote on Tue, 01 November 2011 08:31 |
I've knit many, many socks (most of them were even in pairs!) but I have never managed to wrap my mind around the two-at-once-on-circular-needles approach. To me, the old-fashioned set of five double pointed needles is much more straightforward! More power to you, and perhaps you could give the rest of us a tutorial when you've mastered the technique!
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Snork!! I bought a book called, descriptively, Toe-Up Two-at-a-Time Socks, because it seemed to me that finishing both socks at once would be rather nice. (And I've used double-points to finish hats, but I'm not in love with them.) We'll see how it actually goes after Monday night. The muttering might become intense.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Singing and Ghostbusting [message #46018 is a reply to message #45957 ] |
Fri, 04 November 2011 02:40 |
Kim A
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She's pregnant, and he says he loves all women, not just her. _Then_ she lies down and dies
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I thought I remembered that he knocked her up and then ditched her, but I haven't sung it in years. It's a gorgeous song. (Despite the story!)
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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