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O Fortuna! Again!

For those of you who missed the Toronto Choral Society's Carmina Burana concert in 2004… we're doing it again this spring. With a full concert orchestra this time.

::dies of joy::

It's hard to put into words just how happy this makes me (and Erin). Let it suffice that I got an audition package to the Toronto Mendehlson Choir this year because they're doing it, and I would have gone ahead with the audition had I not received my TCS newsletter bearing the joyous news.

So why are we doing it again so soon? Because Geoff wants to push the Russia trip up to July 2006, and Carmina Burana is the reason we were invited to perform. It will, of course, be dependent on enough tenors and basses signing up, but we'll know by October whether or not the trip is a go. Cross your fingers.

This is both good and bad. Good, because yay Russia! And it'll be out of the way before I apply for my Master's degree (whether or not I'll go depends on whether or not I can get a scholarship). Bad because it's $500 more to go in the peak season, and several months less in which to save for it. I can't not go, because really, how often in your life do you get invited by the government of Russia to sing in Russia's best concert halls? But I can't afford it either. So yes, if the tour is indeed a go, there will be fundraising going on in this space in the near future. I'll make it as un-obnoxious as I can.

and...

STELLAR MAGPIE is coming...