Subbing at the last minute: Classic or Dud?

Hell, tis worth the bravery;>

Afraid of copyright infringement?

Ned, why'd you warn him? Now his guard will be up....;>

GOING ON MY SIXTH SEASON SINGING HERE WOOT

Get that paper.

I once took a church singing gig but felt so profoundly uncomfortable that I never came back (being an atheist Jew and all)

I'm an agnostic singing at a Unitarian church; it's not really a problem.

It was an Episcopal church - we had to bow in front of a cross on the way in, and then there was communion -- which of course I didn't take but I had to rather conspicuously step out.

Both my parents are singers and my mom did lots of church and synagogue gigs.

...but I had to rather conspicuously step out.

I'm an atheist, and I've done communion. It's just a wafer, as far as I'm concerned. Could have used a little cheese.

yumm
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The church I grew up going to offered those boring flat wafers much of the time, but sometimes they offered this really delicious honey wheat bread.

The singing generally sucked, though. The last time I went to Midnight Mass, my sister and I ended up trying not to crack up during the very flat alto's solo. We were also subjected to some horrific liturgical dance.

DAN, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE NEEDED YOU?

wait, church choirs have "seasons?"

i sang at a church where they gave us sweet yummy bread for communion! they also fed us breakfast btw services!

anyway, dan, any recordings 6 years later? i want to hear you sing bach!!!!

tom, most of the churches in the area when i was singing were such that the soloists/section leaders/cantors were from my music school. during the summers, the choirs got a little more lax cause all the good people were out of town leaving the regular parishioners to sing by themselves and realize they were all tonedeaf. also, fall was the time they auditioned new section leaders, etc.

C.R.E.A.M.

In response to the question about recordings:

There are private recordings for the choristers only; we can't legally sell them to anyone because of the copyright issues involved so they are pretty much solely for the participants' archives. I have a pile from the concerts I've done with them including one huge solo in an awesome cantata written by a woman out in Utah that I should dig up somtime.

for radio shows, i love subbing. i get to play whatevah the fuck i wants, and if that means airplane noises for 40 minutes, then so be it.

for radio shows, i hate subbing. motherfuckers don't care about my agenda, they just want to hear "ice of boston."