Unbearably close to the Vox Dei

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dear organists who practice after the building is closed to the public: it’s not fair and I hate you.
I could FEEL the cathedral doors shaking when I put my ear up to them.

On the other hand I got to hear part of a service in two other cathedrals, so that’s a bit better at least.

The concert

Pretty great concert. Very much the old style classical performance, where the lights stay up, there’s some humor, the audience participates a bit, and we do an awful lot of clapping for the Opera singers, those divas.

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To be fair, the girl in the green had amazing control. All four vocalists were quite talented, which was fun.

The Mozart Egyptian piece was really quite interesting, and a couple of the polkas really had some beat to them!

I have a PDF of the program that I’ll figure out a way to attach later.