March 21, 2011
Tags: Abba, boar's head, choir, Juramento, Take a Chance on Me, The Birth of the Blues, Xanax
It was a six Xanax quarter with the OK Chorale. They always pull it off in the end but three pieces made me wonder if this was the quarter when we would break our streak: I didn’t know much about Abba. My popular music education stopped in 1972. (See https://www.elenalouiserichmond.com/2011/03/piano-students-part-2-the-adolescents/ ) Then one of my Read the Rest…
December 17, 2010
Tags: boar's head, choir concert, paper maché
I’ve had a pig at my table for two weeks.Actually a boar, not a pig.And only the head.A boar’s head.OK, it’s paper maché.I wanted one so the OK Chorale could process singing “The Boar’s Head Carol.”One of our altos, Gail, who teaches kindergarten at North Beach Elementary, volunteered her class to create a boar’s head. Read the Rest…