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Wow...
Just 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. :)