We had our first "Lecture Concert" where Helmuth Rilling lectures about a movement from the B-Minor Mass and we perform excerpts throughout. If anyone has been to the Discovery Series Concerts at OBF, it's the same thing. Tonight we sang Movements 1-5: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie, Gloria, & Et in Terra Pax. Lots of applause, lots of funny faces from Maestro Rilling, but not a lot of voice from me. It was very warm and dry up on the stage, so my throat started to hurt and I really didn't have much voice even though I didn't sing in the morning rehearsal. I probably should have also refrained from singing in the afternoon.
I found an actual lounge in the Musickhochschule that is partitioned off and has four lounge chairs, like for the poolside. These are intended for people to take naps on. Steffi said that it's for people who don't want to have to run across town to their home to take a nap. Imagine if every music school had this! I remember wanting to nap but needing to decide if it was worth walking back to the dorms to do so. I took a nap at each of our two hour breaks. I felt so low on energy, but each nap was helpful enough to get me to the end of the next rehearsal.
Being without a voice is so frustrating for me. Obviously not singing, but the worst is not being able to interact with people who I only have two more weeks to hang out with them. I've run out of my homeopathic drops for hoarseness and will need to swing by the Apotheke. Meredith said that Germans are all about Homeopathic remedies, so I should have no problem finding a refill.
With that I must call it a night and get more than 8 hours of sleep.
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