Chorus Campaigns: Poland and the longest day ever
Dziendobry! (Good morning!)
I'm in the beautiful resort town of Sopot, Poland where Harding Chorus is one of 16 groups participating in the 2nd annual Mundus Cantat International Choral Festival. We're the only group from the States, there are several from Poland, Hungary, Ecuador, and all over the world. After extensive rehearsal, we gave our first concert last night in a pre-festival event featuring three choruses. We'll be judged on our performances of selections according to different categories: sacred unaccompanied, folk music, and miscellaneous/jazz/gospel songs. The first of those judged performances is in about two hours.
Getting here was a challenge in and of itself. I led morning and evening worship at the Hot Springs Village church of Christ Sunday, and got back to Searcy about 9:00pm. Kris and I stayed up the night packing, getting last minute things at Walmart, and enjoying some IHOP. We left for the airport at 3:45, waited in an infinitely long line to check in, an infinitely longer line for the security checkpoint, and a refreshingly short line to board the plane. After a two and a half hour flight to Newark, we enjoyed a 6 hour layover. I played cards and picked up a book (David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day). We eventually boarded the plane and left for Berlin, arriving about 8:00am. We then boarded the bus and made our way here to Sopot, where we ate and rehearsed until about 10:30. So there was something like a 36-hour day with very little sleep.
I would probably do it again to get here - this town is beautiful!
Coming soon: More about Sopot, and the rest of the Choral Festival.
I'm in the beautiful resort town of Sopot, Poland where Harding Chorus is one of 16 groups participating in the 2nd annual Mundus Cantat International Choral Festival. We're the only group from the States, there are several from Poland, Hungary, Ecuador, and all over the world. After extensive rehearsal, we gave our first concert last night in a pre-festival event featuring three choruses. We'll be judged on our performances of selections according to different categories: sacred unaccompanied, folk music, and miscellaneous/jazz/gospel songs. The first of those judged performances is in about two hours.
Getting here was a challenge in and of itself. I led morning and evening worship at the Hot Springs Village church of Christ Sunday, and got back to Searcy about 9:00pm. Kris and I stayed up the night packing, getting last minute things at Walmart, and enjoying some IHOP. We left for the airport at 3:45, waited in an infinitely long line to check in, an infinitely longer line for the security checkpoint, and a refreshingly short line to board the plane. After a two and a half hour flight to Newark, we enjoyed a 6 hour layover. I played cards and picked up a book (David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day). We eventually boarded the plane and left for Berlin, arriving about 8:00am. We then boarded the bus and made our way here to Sopot, where we ate and rehearsed until about 10:30. So there was something like a 36-hour day with very little sleep.
I would probably do it again to get here - this town is beautiful!
Coming soon: More about Sopot, and the rest of the Choral Festival.
posted by Allen J P at
05:24
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KeeperOfBooks34, at 18/5/06 08:15
I like the Newark airport. Flying in you get to see many of the famous New York landmark, but get to keep your chances of being murdered low.
Please continue to post greetings in the native tongue of your destinations, but could you also give us pronunciation guides?
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KeeperOfBooks34, at 18/5/06 08:20
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