The summer has come. The sun shines even in Rainy City.
Bright light casts teasing patterns on the smooth surfaces. A few open windows
and the beautiful old tiles keep us cool.
We always like signing here. The acoustics are kind. We come
twice a year to sing in the bath. Just how much can we make Viva la Musica jump around?
This time there are chairs in the pool area and they are almost
all taken both times we perform. People also listen from the balconies, from
the edge of the pool and from the back of the basin. Several people approach us
between performances and tell us that they’ve enjoyed listening to us. Well, we aim to
please. It’s nice to know we’re succeeding
some of the time at least.
We now have a visitors’ book. We invite our audience to
comment and also to sign up for our newsletter. Here are some of the comments
we get this time:
“Thank you, great.”
“Thank you – very harmonious.”
“Sent shivers up my arm – in a good
way.”
We’ve now more or less brought I know him so well into our repertoire. Royals is becoming more solid. For the first time we perform a
special arrangement of Somewhere over the
Rainbow. We include, of course, a lot of our normal repertoire. It’s well received
and as ever we have a ball.
We’re never quite sure exactly how many performers we’ll
have. We won’t agree to a performance unless we know we have enough in each part
but then sometimes life happens – illness, traffic, family problems … and it
can become a little skewed. This time we have just one bass, and for once more
tenors than altos. We have to work with that and it is up to everyone present to
adjust accordingly.
Of course, we are
also able to enjoy another passion of ours. We eat cake. The cake at the
Victoria Baths is lovely. And so is their chocolate shortbread.
We look forward to returning many times in the future.
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