berry@zinfandel.UUCP (04/18/84)
#R:tekecs:-368900:zinfandel:8500027:000:1145 zinfandel!berry Apr 16 13:19:00 1984 This has nothing to do with razor blades. (All punk sounds alike to me, and I'M RIGHT, but if y'all wanna listen to it, its OK with me.) The director of my chorus is a remarkably talented pianist and organist. At one of our concerts he was going to play the Bach 'Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C minor' (You know, it goes dum da da dum dee dee...) but decided the pedal was too wretched (the cocert was a fund raiser for organ maintenance, oddly enough.) Instead, we decided to play 'Stump the Chorus' with the audience/con- gregation. He had someone in the audience select a hymn (or 2 or 3) from the hymnall. Then he improvised chorale preludes on those hymn tunes, and we sight-read the hymns. That improvisation was impressive, especially when we decided to do two at once, and they were in two different keys -- b-flat and d, I think. The tenors were taking bets on how he was going to work the modulation. Later, at the post concert party he got hold of a piano and we wound up improvising blues/rock versions of Elizabethan madrigals. Wierd fun! Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900