It’s fall, let the music flow
Though the weather seems fixed on summer, fall has actually arrived. Long months with a mere trickle of choral stuff are over. Church choirs are back in session, with some having sung several anthems already, and others polishing off the rust as they return to learning. One church even as I write is doing their annual penance for summer ease, spending the long afternoon ‘sweating over hot’ scores in preparation for the year.
Directors at local high schools, with school calendars creeping earlier each year, have been reminding students of music skills they forgot over summer for two months, and initiating freshmen into the mysteries of choral singing SATB with real basses, etc., etc..
Two of our local chorales (Claremont Chorale, Mountainside Master Chorale) began preparing Christmas programs the week after Labor Day, and have reached the point where singers wanting to join must wait until January. Other local chorales are somewhere working on the same incongruity of singing about Christmas on days when the thermometers are in triple digits.
There’s even one combined event for you to sample, in just three weeks in Pomona. Some ten Methodist choirs will be coming to the Trinity United Methodist church on the afternoon of 21 October for their annual get together.
Fall, finally!