Sunday: Music All the Way Through

The day started off as usual (alarm goes off at 6 am.  Bleh.)   At 7, I was on the road to the city, and then rehearsal, where I discovered that we had only three sops and three altos and one bass, two baritones, and four tenors, including the soloist for the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "Amazing Grace" (Offertory anthem) and Randall Thompson's "Alleluia."   One of the other altos was the paid one (thank heavens.)   We did pretty well.   Then came breakfast in the parish hall.   By the second r...