merry christmas / happy yuletide!
Dec. 27th, 2012 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnMerry Christmas, rather late, to those of you who celebrate it, and happy yuletide to those of you who celebrate that :)
I have had a very lovely week!
-The Sunday afternoon church program was amazing and the choir rocked completely, thank you choir for being amazing! (Um. I'm not actually the real choir director, but I feel a sense of proprietary ownership all the same!)
-In what appears to have been a Christmas miracle, at the very last minute the Sunday evening Christmas program for my church, the one I've been complaining a lot about lately, came together and it was not 2.5 hours long, and the singalong was only four songs (instead of twenty, like last year), and another guy and I sang two of the host's favorite songs and they were gorgeous, and one song traditionally sung every year at this event got back on the program. (All of these were points of contention at one time or another; I was probably to blame as well for digging my heels in for a couple of them.) It turned out to be wonderful and unifying and inclusive and intimate and appealing to a wide variety of people in a variety of different ways (I was undone by the couple who are semi-professional tenor-soprano singing "Silent Night" with the audience; the host was bowled over by "Grownup Christmas List"; and many people loved that the song-that's-sung-every-year was again sung) and I cannot see how it could have gone any better.
-My first Catholic Christmas mass. It was gorgeous, both visually and aurally. Just gorgeous. My mom said, "Wow, the choir was really good!" which you know means she really thought we were good! I sang a duet with DK, the same Silent Night sung at my church event on Sunday, which went quite well although I actually kind of preferred the one on Sunday, which was more intimate. We sang a mass by Hassler, which was a lot of fun, and O Magnum Mysterium by Vittoria, which is a gorgeous piece to which I am not sure we did justice at all.
-E., meanwhile, has thoroughly figured out that Christmas is for opening presents, and she was really excited about it. Particularly about the plane she could screw together and the play cell phone, both presents from her grandmother.
-Yuletide: My recipient was very pleased, and even more, understood what I was doing, which totally made my yuletide, especially given that it is a tossup whether anyone else reads it. (It is accessible even without knowing recipient's canon, I think, and if anyone does read it, I suspect it is immediately recognizable as mine from both style and content.) I am amused that my Madness fic, which took the most research (aside from assignment part a) but the least actual writing, has gotten the most interest; but there, it's in a rather more accessible canon. There's been a lot of very exciting stuff this yuletide; I'm putting together a rec list but haven't finished yet.
I have had a very lovely week!
-The Sunday afternoon church program was amazing and the choir rocked completely, thank you choir for being amazing! (Um. I'm not actually the real choir director, but I feel a sense of proprietary ownership all the same!)
-In what appears to have been a Christmas miracle, at the very last minute the Sunday evening Christmas program for my church, the one I've been complaining a lot about lately, came together and it was not 2.5 hours long, and the singalong was only four songs (instead of twenty, like last year), and another guy and I sang two of the host's favorite songs and they were gorgeous, and one song traditionally sung every year at this event got back on the program. (All of these were points of contention at one time or another; I was probably to blame as well for digging my heels in for a couple of them.) It turned out to be wonderful and unifying and inclusive and intimate and appealing to a wide variety of people in a variety of different ways (I was undone by the couple who are semi-professional tenor-soprano singing "Silent Night" with the audience; the host was bowled over by "Grownup Christmas List"; and many people loved that the song-that's-sung-every-year was again sung) and I cannot see how it could have gone any better.
-My first Catholic Christmas mass. It was gorgeous, both visually and aurally. Just gorgeous. My mom said, "Wow, the choir was really good!" which you know means she really thought we were good! I sang a duet with DK, the same Silent Night sung at my church event on Sunday, which went quite well although I actually kind of preferred the one on Sunday, which was more intimate. We sang a mass by Hassler, which was a lot of fun, and O Magnum Mysterium by Vittoria, which is a gorgeous piece to which I am not sure we did justice at all.
-E., meanwhile, has thoroughly figured out that Christmas is for opening presents, and she was really excited about it. Particularly about the plane she could screw together and the play cell phone, both presents from her grandmother.
-Yuletide: My recipient was very pleased, and even more, understood what I was doing, which totally made my yuletide, especially given that it is a tossup whether anyone else reads it. (It is accessible even without knowing recipient's canon, I think, and if anyone does read it, I suspect it is immediately recognizable as mine from both style and content.) I am amused that my Madness fic, which took the most research (aside from assignment part a) but the least actual writing, has gotten the most interest; but there, it's in a rather more accessible canon. There's been a lot of very exciting stuff this yuletide; I'm putting together a rec list but haven't finished yet.
