Monday, May 12, 2008
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I was on the radio this morning.
Our church broadcasts the 9:30 mass out on the radio. Sometimes choir sings at 9:30, but I'm always just part of the choir crowd then. 11:30 mass is when I cantor.
For reasons completely unknown to me, I got scheduled to be the cantor for this mass. Not only did I have all the usual stuff, it was Pentecost, so I had to sing the sequence, and then the piece we did for gifts had this lovely little cantor solo bit. So I had to sing all this extra stuff, for radio broadcast, while half asleep. And just for fun -- the choir director decided to add a verse of the solo thing that on Wednesday was not part of the reportoire and hence not practiced. Yeah, let's screw me up when I'm sleepwalking.
And yes, you better believe I was thinking about that radio audience every time I messed up. Never know who might be listening. Like my friends -- who I don't sing in front of.
Then I came home and crashed on the couch for the rest of the day. 8 am is really too early to be awake.
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Comments (3)
while it was an unexpected surprise....8am is waaaaaay too early for anything but copious amounts of coffee.
How cool to be featured on the air. But isn't it funny that we have certain talents we don't share with our friends? I do the same thing with my writing. They all know I do it, but I don't pass it around to them. Why the hell is that?
I was once told I wasn't singing for an audience, I was singing for God. The only reason it helped was because earlier in life I learned that God doesn't care how you sing as long as you sing with love and joy. Neither tidbit prevented me from making errors while singing in church.
What is a cantor? I've heard the term in reference to Jewish services, but never before in a Catholic service. I have attended Catholic services on occasion throughout my life, but don't recall anyone ever singing a solo [although I have a very vague, uncertain recollection of a guy (the priest?) once chanting parts of the ... I don't know what it's called, but it seemed like a memorized give and take between him and the congregation. The regulars knew how to respond, but I didn't.)