Repost from the forbidden board

So today was my first choir rehearsal as a second soprano...

...the new range was so... liberating!

I was able to actually open up and let the sound come out nice and clear (i.e. not held back), the way I want it to. (It's difficult to do that when I'm always stuck in the middle-C octave.)

Today we worked on a song in Latin and one in Church Slavonic (which was nifty). There's also a song in my music folder that looks like it's in Ladino, and stuff in German.

I was initially a little afraid that I might end up with my seat next to the, erm, aspiring opera (or was it musical theatre?) singer in the first soprano section - she fits the stereotype to a tee - overly dramatic, diva-ish showing-off of her skills, extremely popular, and so on - but I didn't, so I'm thankful for that.

During warm-up exercises, baritones and basses are usually allowed to drop an octave once they feel uncomfortable going any higher; Bob explained that "altos don't get to do that because I don't want them to get too comfortable with low notes. I want them to get out of that narrow range."

So when some of the altos started to ask me why I was 'being a traitor' and going to the dark side, I told them that I was just doing what Bob said to do :P

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...for this is a world in which I do not belong, in which I do not have faith, in which I was not meant to live.

Every life I have lived I have never fulfilled, because the final link was not there: the hearts of those who do not know what walks before them.

I was once Somebody. Somebody who was meant to live on in the legends of time. I was seen to become one with greatness in time; but I was robbed of it.

It is in this anachronism that I lay suspended, powerless, alone; all and true form invisible to those who seek to unbind me.