Sort of. We had our scratchy messier last night with an orchestra of about 15 plus organ. It seemed the bass soloist had the lurgy. So I filled in the first three (or two depending how you count) with no run through with the orchestra before hand, Why do the nations was skipped and the conductor (who is really a tenor) sounded the trumpet near the end (I think he'd already had a run through with the orchestra - and he probably thought that as a tenor that was his only opportunity to sing the Trumpet shall sound with an orchestra). For the rest of the time I had to bolster the tenor line, except when I got fed up with all the F#s and Gs and swapped back to bass, much to the confusion of the poor chap next to me!

Quite a fun way to do it actually.

That sounds chaotic but good fun. I hope that it wasn't recorded! I am looking forward to the Elijah in Cardiff next year when there is a come and sing day in St David's hall.

I wouldn't say chaotic, but good fun, and it did mean three of the soloists were all from the same choir.

ooh where and when is that? I'm in cardiff and love singing!

Why does it say you're in Berlin, then?

Juky says that she is from Berlin. She may be a very useful German language expert.

If you look at the Froum events 2009 list at the top of the General Music Forum you will find details of it. I will be there.

Well my hometown is Berlin but I go to uni in Cardiff!



Thanks, I'll have a look there!