Choir weekend

Singing. Tired. Nice music. Party. Warm. Continually dry throat. In short: choir weekend (in June).
The usual ingredients were there: lots of singing; a party on Saturday evening; decidedly less than the optimal amount of sleep; doing the warming up an octave down on Sunday morning; etc...
Some things were different than last time: there was much less dancing at the party this time, and more talking outside, to avoid getting altogether dehydrated. The bass sectionals were in the chapel of the place where we were staying (something church-related), so the guy leading our sectional got to play the organ instead of the usual second- to third-rate keyboard also known as Gummiklavier. Which was nice: when we were falling asleep, he would just play the orchestra's part, with all four limbs, and we would quickly return to singing to make him stop :).
People seem to be more confident that the performances are going to be good. It's justified, I think: we know the music much better than last term at this point, and simply have less to learn in total. This piece is usually four-voiced, sometimes five; last term, we had something usually six-voiced, sometimes four, sometimes ten. And this time, people know the lyrics already.

Of course, some things were the same; as the conductor said: "Singen wir jetzt das Lied über den Dirigenten: `dieser Mensch hört nicht auf zu reden Lästerworte'..."