[sound of glass breaking]

[resonant]

You know how movies have casting cliches? Like, if the main character feels his/her life is meaningless, there's always a child, a non-white person, or a fat woman to teach him/her to stop and smell the roses?

Evidently real life has them, too.

Like how every committee has that one person who always seconds every motion? And every preschool class has that one kid who has to be at the front of every line and in charge of every game?

Or, case in point, how every choir has to have that one soprano with the great big throbbing vibrato? The vibrato so wide that she's offkey for about two-thirds of any given note?

We're combining with another choir next Sunday. So ... that's right ... we've got two of them.

Comments

[shoorihoshi.livejournal.com]

May I suggest a set of earplugs for every audience member?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

And for the other singers, too, please.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll cancel each other out. I seem to remember a long-ago physics lesson involving wavelength and amplitude...

Our soprano with the huge voice and huge vibrato got busted down to alto. She's not pleased. She used to sit on the border of SII/AI and sing with the sopranos. Now she's been moved to the far side of the altos. I expect a mutiny any day.

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, don't I wish. Unfortunately, they tend to end up amplifying each other just as often.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

They were kind of scary together, because both their vibratos were wide, but they weren't precisely the same degree of wide.

busted down to alto.

[laughing] Ours is so high that if there were something above soprano, she'd be singing that.

Fortunately, she spends her winters in Florida.

[amadyce.livejournal.com]

It's true. I sang in chorus in college and we had one too. Ouch.

[birdsflying]

Oh god, yes.

Our's is an alto (which is where I lurk due to the lack of places for female bass) and I'm always placed next to her in the concerts and right at the front (the edge of the curved row). So, not only do I stand a foot taller than everyone else on the row but all I can hear is her and it makes me so paranoid.

What if everyone in the audience thinks it's me because they can't see her? :wibbles: It's so offputting.

[hya-cynth.livejournal.com]

I can't sing at all *wibble* I get paranoid when I can't hear myself over other people. I wonder if I'm offkey.. while we're on movie cliches, do I get to be the person who always trips and falls and busts her ass?

[linda3m.livejournal.com]

That's unbelievable! A friend of mine in a choir in CT said the exactly same thing.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's an animal too. And always, that person is left on the sidelines at the end of the movie, watching the protagonist get what they *really* wanted.

*goes off to look for said child or black guy*

Hey, just added you to my friends list, too.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

And always, that person is left on the sidelines at the end of the movie, watching the protagonist get what they *really* wanted.

I'm still quite irrationally pissed at the end of "The Breakfast Club," where all the other characters paired off while the little geeky guy was rewarded for his honesty by getting to do everybody else's homework.