More concert notes

A new nickname was picked up during the rehearsals for our concert on Saturday. During one particular passage in the Copland, the basses sing about whales--it's a slow-moving, rather low passage, resembling the whales themselves. However, there's a middle C in the midst of one of the phrases that has a tendency to be attacked too strongly.

Unfortunately, one of our freshman basses sang with a little too much vehemence in that passage, and had to be quieted down by our conductor: "too much whale there, Eddie." Hence, in the choir's parlance, he is now officially "Eddie the Whale."

It's a minor note, but it was quite a comic one in the thick of some very long rehearsals.