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darcydodoJust got back from Musical Offerings, a classical music shop & café near campus; the King's Singers were signing CDs there. So of course a bunch of Perfect Fifth went, and since we were definitely a significant majority of the people there to drool over them, they spent a good deal of time talking to us, signing our CDs, and... singing. They only sang one song, but it was really, really, really cool. Fun version of Jingle Bells.
Oxford classicist-types will be amused: one of the group — I'm guessing the newest member, as he can't even be thirty yet — was taught Latin in school by none other than James Morwood. (His name's Gabriel Crouch, but I don't think any of my LJ friends were at Harrow.... in fact, I'm not sure any of my friends were at Harrow, come to think of it.) Anyway, Gabriel told me a lovely, so-very-James story about how they used to have a daily ten question quiz, and the students were regularly in the habit of correcting their own, rather than anyone else's, as they were supposed to, and of course they'd all leave the questions blank and fill them in during the correcting; so they all would get 10/10. Except for one boy who was exceedingly stupid and also refused to participate in the cheating, and would invariably get 0/10. James is, really, so very incredibly oblivious. Anyway, the group is really a lovely bunch, and one of them showed us pictures of his kids, and aww. And I now have a CD signed by them! I was so tempted to have them sign a blank CD case for my ripped copy of one of their CDs... I mean, my parents own the original... but I was good and didn't. :)
Oxford classicist-types will be amused: one of the group — I'm guessing the newest member, as he can't even be thirty yet — was taught Latin in school by none other than James Morwood. (His name's Gabriel Crouch, but I don't think any of my LJ friends were at Harrow.... in fact, I'm not sure any of my friends were at Harrow, come to think of it.) Anyway, Gabriel told me a lovely, so-very-James story about how they used to have a daily ten question quiz, and the students were regularly in the habit of correcting their own, rather than anyone else's, as they were supposed to, and of course they'd all leave the questions blank and fill them in during the correcting; so they all would get 10/10. Except for one boy who was exceedingly stupid and also refused to participate in the cheating, and would invariably get 0/10. James is, really, so very incredibly oblivious. Anyway, the group is really a lovely bunch, and one of them showed us pictures of his kids, and aww. And I now have a CD signed by them! I was so tempted to have them sign a blank CD case for my ripped copy of one of their CDs... I mean, my parents own the original... but I was good and didn't. :)
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Date: 2003-12-13 02:48 pm (UTC)Do the King's Singers still all come out of King's College at the Other Place? The name Gabriel Crouch sounds familiar, and I've never been anywhere near Harrow. He'd be about the right age: I'm wondering if we could have been contemporaries at Oxford, and I heard him performing when I was an undergrad?
Perhaps I'm imagining it. These English public school & Oxbridge types all have the same names anyway.
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Date: 2003-12-13 07:27 pm (UTC)I have no idea, but I know he was at Cambridge. I didn't ask what college, but somewhere that has choral scholars; of course, that's most places. Does King's offer Human Geography?
These English public school & Oxbridge types all have the same names anyway.
So very true. And he look/sounded very much that way, too. :)
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Date: 2003-12-14 12:32 am (UTC)anyway, are you going to the concord ensemble tonight? i have two tickets but can't go. i'm really bummed. yeah, it's in like 2 and a half hours. so um, like, if you see this before 7pm tonight, and want a ticket, um, hey, try sending me a text message via livejournal (at my userinfo page), because that'll make my cell phone beep. yeah.
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Date: 2003-12-14 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
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