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I give up. Chronos are e-vile! This is a typical random post about the organist workshop. No doubt the paragraphs won’t be proper and bad grammar will be amply spread throughout. Oh well.
The saddest part of my trip happened on the way there… I turned around and looked at the stuff in the “trunk” only to see *THE* castle!!! How could the Stuckwisches get rid of the castle? <sniff> There it was in the seminary clothing bank donation pile… I have many fond memories of that castle… and all the little action figures that went with. I enjoyed it even more than ice cream sandwiches and kicking Zack! (He kicked me too so we’re even.)
There were three practice organs at sem. A small one with six stops, a recently acquired one which is very loud and has lots of stops, and of course the chapel organ which isn’t really a practice organ but is an *ORGAN*. I liked practicing on the loud practice organ the most because the one with six stops (one of which doesn’t work) was rather boring and there was always the risk of people listening to you practice in the chapel. I practiced in the chapel twice, the first time there were two seminarians in there half the time going over a wedding service and at one point they were looking up at the organ and talking about it. Uuuug… the second time I was working mainly on fingerings and I wasn’t able to actually play much at all.
Tuesday evening Kantor Hildebrand told us that there would be a power outage in our dorms from 5-9 a.m. I had to practice at 6 so I was forced to set my alarm for before 5 or I wouldn’t have been awake… Well I set it for 4:40 and lay in bed staring at it till 5:40. Wait a sec.!!! Why wasn’t the power out? Hmph! So I was a zombie all day but I still managed to pay attention and stay mostly awake, especially after drinking two cups of coffee.
Sam and his fellow Greek student Shawn joined
Maggie, and ish for lunch on Wednesday. Of course the topic of wedding dresses and engagement rings came up.
;-p I was wearing the bracelet from the fall HT retreat that Maggie gave me. It turns out that Shawn was the organist for that event. We all discussed the problem of the Emmaus organ.
I revealed my plot to beg one from Carl Wilhelm. His organs are priceless to him after all. When he lets someone buy one he’s basically giving them the privilege of using his organ. So he shouldn’t have any qualms about giving us the privilege for free! He reprimanded Mom for letting me practice on electrical organs… if he cares that much he could give us a real one!
Edited on: June 27th, 2007 11:07 am
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