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[artyartie]

I wanted to answer this week's tsukimineshrine challenge, but while Nakuru and Spinel were begging Eriol to go to the Fleet Review, and Kaho looked so pretty in her frock, he just didn't want to leave his new chair. And then I tried to convince Naoko and Tomoyo to come out and play, but they just wanted to stay inside and read. Or so they said.

In what I hope isn't a fruitless act, I've tried to round up fellow Age of Sail fans in the Denver area for a Trafalgar 200 event - otherwise known as going to one of our British pubs and raising many a toast to Nelson. I'm hoping there's an answer, or two, in the next few days! If not, maybe I'll accost some people at a signing in a week. The author of Seize the Fire, a book on Trafalgar, Nelson, and the definition of heroism, is coming to the Tattered Cover next Friday. I'm a quarter of the way through the book and it's just brilliant - there's a discussion on Greek vs. Roman heroes I know some of you would love. And one of our choirs is doing a concert on October 18, but I want to do something on the day itself, no matter how small. I spent a while at the official site and again found myself wishing I had gone for the Fleet Review - the next time I'm in Great Britain I will certainly be spending a day in Portsmouth. With much wistfulness, I found Web sites for companies that do tall ship excursions and even working vacations. I can't even imagine how incredible an experience that would be. And then there's this little voice that says when I get married (after that tricky bit of finding a prospective mate and all) that it should be a shipboard ceremony.

Interests with me aren't just interests - they're full-blown obsessions.

Comments

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

aren't obsessions just wonderful? i thoroughly enjoy them... however, i think the people who have to suffer the aftermath of them don't think the same thing. i really do hope you get your event organized though. it sounds like fun...

are you in one of those choirs doing the concert? just curious... cuz choir RULES!

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

I hope to hear from someone soon! I love organizing events for random things and this would be a great thing to commemorate.

Alas, no, I'm not in the choir I mentioned above - though I'm hoping to join a Welsh choir very soon. I think that will actually be a lot of fun, and a very new experience! I sing alto, and really love sacred choral music, especially of the Anglican variety. Sometimes the old songs are just the best! I'm guessing that you sing, too?

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

yes i do sing, amazingly enough. and i just so happen to sing alto (anywhere from alto II to sop II actually, but normally alto I).

that welsh choir sounds amazing! of course, welsh singing brings up memories from blackadder... but that's another story.

i agree with you about sacred choral music. it's simply beautiful to listen to and great fun to sing. i also love singing madrigals and stuff like that, as well as just about anything else.

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like our voices are in the same range! When I'm in good form, I can sing second soprano, too. What are some of the things your choir is singing? The last piece I tried was handel's Messiah and that was soooooo freaking hard. I'm very much an amateur and that was just a little out of my league. A few years ago a choir I was in did a lovely choral piece by Mozart, the name of which I cannot remember, and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs. So pretty! The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is doing Carmina Burana in a few weeks, which has me very excited.

Have you heard the Lux Aeterna by Lauridsen yet? I bought it a few weeks ago and haven't made a post on it, but it is simply one of the most beautiful works I've ever heard in my life. It just transports you to a whole other realm!

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

well, for choir this year, we have a beautiful randall thompson piece called "alleluia", a great arrangement of ave maria (it's kind of traditional, with a slight jazz-ish flare, but not enough for me to be annoyed with it), and a few claude debussy songs which will be a challenge. the fact that they're in french won't help matters either...

i've done some movements of "the messiah" but never the whole thing (my friend at the naval academy did though... she said it was tough just to get through it all). i love "and the glory of the lord". we did that 3 out of my 4 years in high school.

i have not heard lux aeterna, but i shall try and do so. i trust your opinion on it.

btw, your icon is amazing!

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

And then I tried to convince Naoko and Tomoyo to come out and play, but they just wanted to stay inside and read. Or so they said.

...Oops, sorry. I'm afraid I stole them to have a T_D conversation of some moment. You can have 'em back on Monday.

Interest, obsession, what's the difference?

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

So that's where they are! Well, I know I can count on you to make sure they get to bet at a decent hour and eat their vegetables.

*chuckles* For most of us, it seems, there really isn't much difference at all.

marriage

[xeiga.livejournal.com]

when you do get married, i'd love to be a guest for a shipboard ceremony!