Today Coro Verdi had its first rehearsal in the New Year. With the Christmas concert finished, we've returned to rehearsing Verdi's MACBETH. (We spent a lot of time on the Cutthroats' Chorus.) I don't like to boast, but it's a fact that John George and Giovanni like to sit next to me because I'm a fast learner.
Giuseppe is worrying about not having enough singers, especially sopranos. TOR has lots of sopranos, but as a rule he doesn't lean on the TOR chorus people to join his other group. We're going to move rehearsals to the Villa Colombo building sometime, but not just yet.
Today I also finished WHAT A YEAR! In the last chapter Joe Alex Morris wrote "For better or worse, Americans who died in 1929 had never heard of..." then recited a long list of phenomena that he expected 1956 readers to be familiar with. I knew most of them, though not everyone remembers Gina Lollobrigida or Cinerama. There were a few I had to look up, however.
Dave Garroway: first host of THE TODAY SHOW. (That's one of those names that sound vaguely familiar to me.)
Economic royalists: FDR's 1936 term for robber barons.
Dacron: a brand of polyester.
Indirect lighting: A lighting system where flourescent tubes along the top of a living room's wall reflect their light onto the ceiling.
Fala: FDR's terrier.
Sulfanilamide: a germ-killing elixir that caused mass poisoning in 1937.
I'm still trying to figure out why he included Nashua.
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