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I was in rehearsal as a guest when Coastal Sound read this piece for the first time in their terrible rehearsal space in Coquitlam with a giant mirror facing the choir.

Vienna Teng is a programmer turned musician who wrote the song as a protest piece as Facebook and particularly a firm called Acxiom started to monitor what we consume on the internet and sell our data to advertisers.

Coastal Sound Youth Choir - Hymn of Acxiom

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youtube.com/watch?v=4H_HOw4sBeM

Gaze Upon the Trees - Andrew Balfour

I'm proud that @chronosvocalensemble comissioned this work, and my voice is in the reference recording for the work. It has since been recently performed at the national ACDA conference.

Balfour is a Canadian Indigenous composer, and it's always a joy to work with him.

Fun fact: the working title of this work was "waterfall in spring".

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First weekend off in weeks, no students, workshops, rehearsals or concerts either paid or not. I've had such a lovely day! Went to a concert as a listener, organ music by Frescobaldi and Scheidemann played by my husband Ere, and psalms by Orlando di Lasso sung by Cantores Martini, the small vocal ensemble at the Dom church. I told Ere the Scheidemann piece grooved like a pious moose. :) The center of town was packed full with people sitting at ouside cafes enjoying the sun.

Before and after had enough time to practise choir parts, traverso parts for Matteus and baroque bassoon pieces for the next lesson some time in the future when my teacher comes back from tour. And make a pan of apple sauce. Now I'm going to continue my detective story book binge. :)

Performed in an amazing #concert for #ImmigrantJustice last night, with the proceeds going to an organization that supports refugees new to the area. The one song I thought Jo's service dog would freak at, she handeled pretty darn well. I had to use my cane throughout the concert, which was a new experience for me, but it helped a lot. I get to sing with the group again come April 6, when we'll be singing for a service with a visiting speaker, so that will be an awesome close-out on this chapter of my experience with #JusticeChoir of the Midwest, and then at some point we'll be doing an LGBT justice concert for the fall. There's also hopefully going to be an LGBT+ choir meeting in May to perform for Pride in June, and I'm hopeful to get involved with that.
I am tired today, but it was so entirely worth it that while I know I need to rest, I have a damn good reason, which makes that easier. I plan to spend the day probably listening to some Star Trek episodes, maybe just sitting in stillness a bit, basically just generally taking it easy.
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Random choir question:

Is anyone around these parts doing any of the Berkshire Choral International sessions this season? Particularly "Considering Matthew Shepard"? I am. And I know a couple of people from my choir and its sibling chorus are. But if there's people from here, give me a shout.

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