Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, Nice and spirited. I always thought that Raucus Hallelujachorus was a character in "Asterix in Spain" (-: Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM, John Edwin Mason <profmason at yahoo.com>wrote: > Google "Messiah Sing-In," and you'll get a lot of hits. Just about every > city, town, and village in the US holds one of these events at Christmas > time -- singers and musicians, young and old, amateur and pro, gather at > Christmas time to sing excerpts from Handel's great oratorio. > > At 42 and counting, Charlottesville's is one of the oldest. (We like to > think that it's the very oldest, but there's no way of knowing.) A couple > of weeks ago, over 500 singers and a full orchestra -- all volunteers, all > unrehearsed -- showed up at the University of Virginia to celebrate the > music, the season, the community. And, not incidentally, to have fun. > > For years, I played French horn in the orchestra. Lately, I've been taking > my camera instead of my horn. > > This year, I also took along a Zoom H2 and recorded the last number. It's > the Hallelujah Chorus, of course. Four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of > joy: > > http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/ > > Happy and peaceful holidays, everyone. > > --John > > ****************************** > John Edwin Mason, Photography: > http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com > Charlottesville and Cape Town > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >