rehearsal

We sang yesterday for about three hours, with combined choir, orchestra and soloists. Probably one thing about Indy that most people don't know is that this a community full of musicians, as well as people who love music.

This is probably because Indiana University's School of Music is only 40 miles away, but for whatever reasons there are an incredible number of trained musicians here, and those interests are reflected in numerous organizations of orchestral and choral presenters.

There are moments in the Mozart C Minor Mass where the soloists could be on an opera stage. Their at times leisurely music contrasts with the confident and somewhat complicated work of the choirs, which for much of tonight's music is split into side-by-side choirs of four sections each, vollying back and forth Mozart's music.