Mayn glik hob ikh gevunen ven ikh hob dikh gefunen

[sovay]

I sang this afternoon at a synagogue in Newton and it could have gone a lot worse.

(There are ways in which it could also have gone better, but that's not the point, T. Witt.)

There will be more of this.

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Well done!

(There are ways in which it could also have gone better, but that's not the point, T. Witt.)

There always are ways. (I relate to this--I sang a song tonight that I'd felt was ready to go out in public, having done it with the current accompaniment twice a day for a fortnight. Turns out it works fine in G at home, but it needs to go higher if I'm out in a noisy room.)

There will be more of this.

And there should be. I'm delighted to hear this.

[sovay]

Excellent! Well done!

Thank you.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yes! There should be more.

Sunday is my first official choir performance evening. During tonight's rehearsal, the choir master suddenly stopped and yelled: "There's ONE PERSON putting an extra note in...am I insane, or is that actually happening?" "You're not insane," I muttered into my music, because it was me, the person who A) can't read music but also B) can't, apparently, even recognize when there are three notes in a sequence rather than four.

[sovay]

Yes! There should be more.

Well, since I don't plan to stop breathing . . .

"You're not insane," I muttered into my music, because it was me, the person who A) can't read music but also B) can't, apparently, even recognize when there are three notes in a sequence rather than four.

Dude, if you're going to make musical mistakes, go for the ones that cause your conductors to doubt their mental stability!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. For you and for the congregation.

Nine

[sovay]

Wonderful. For you and for the congregation.

There were twenty-odd people, but they seemed to like it.

Thank you.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

What did you sing?

Also, mazel tov! May you increase in strength.

[sovay]

What did you sing?

A set of Yiddish folksongs, the three Britten settings I performed for the benefit concert in October, a selection of early Broadway, mostly Gershwins and Jerome Kern. I'd have preferred a more obscure program, but there will be other concerts. I opened with "Oy Dortn, Dortn" and closed with "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" and the audience seemed to like everything in between.

Also, mazel tov! May you increase in strength.

Thank you!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good set. Did you know that the Yiddish Book Center has an overflowing (but disordered) Yiddish sheet music collection? They are willing to sell duplicates.

[sovay]

Did you know that the Yiddish Book Center has an overflowing (but disordered) Yiddish sheet music collection? They are willing to sell duplicates.

. . . No. Goodbye, money.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Alternately, I can ping my aunt the yiddish actress and find out if she's getting rid of any sheet music.

That reminds me, I need to MP3 some stuff for you that I got out of my father's tape collection.

[aedifica]

Cool! ("I won my [luck|happiness] when I found you"?)

[sovay]

("I won my [luck|happiness] when I found you"?)

I didn't know you knew Yiddish!

[aedifica]

I don't, but I know German and that lets me make informed guesses. :-) I'd like to learn some Yiddish sometime, though. (It's on my long mental list of "things that would be neat to do/learn".)

P.S. The German for the translation I put down is "Mein Glück hab' ich gewonnen wenn ich hab' dich gefunden," and W is pronounced like an English V. You can see why I was able to guess!

[sovay]

I'd like to learn some Yiddish sometime, though. (It's on my long mental list of "things that would be neat to do/learn".)

I crash-taught myself Yiddish my senior year at Brandeis while simultaneously teaching myself German. I suspect it destroyed any chance I had at distinguishing vocabulary between the two languages (Hebrew derivations aside) and God help my accent, but I reassure myself with the pipe dream that it replicates something about being a native speaker.

[aedifica]

...a native speaker of which language?

(But still: cool!)

[sovay]

...a native speaker of which language?

Oh, Yiddish, in German-speaking areas: somewhere it would have been reasonable to learn both languages at once. I said it was a pipe dream.

I'm not fluent, but it makes me happy.