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March 24, 2006
Requiem of a boys choir
I went to hear this choir last night. So good, and so British. Chattanooga was the first stop on their American tour, and they had flown over the day before and were clearly jetlagged. Yet they were able to perform Purcell, Mendelssohn, and Herbert Howells with the sound that only a boys choir from Cambridge could make. One of the boys could not have been over 7 years old, with chubby cheeks. He kept yawning and coughing and would lose his place but come back in for the final "Amen." I couldn't believe he was belting out requiems and magnificats and singing in German and doing other things I could only dream of as a 7-year-old. He was SO cute, and Mom and I agreed that we both wanted to take him home and put him to bed.
At the end, the older members of the choir, some of them grown men who were singing serious falsetto, broke out "Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit," with their fabricated southern accents. It was effortless. Not as good as the Cono boys ensemble though.
In other news, UCLA and LSU sent Adam Morrison and JJ Redick home crying, respectively, and literally, and something about that is very satisfying to me. Although it certainly didn't help my bracket.
| By heiders | 01:04 PM
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