(my chorus!)
I wrote last year about how much I adored the movie and the live concert version of Young@Heart. For those of you who don’t know them, the Young@Heart chorus is a bunch of really old people (seriously old) who sing songs from an only slightly younger generation. Think 90-year-old lady singing The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” and you get the general idea. It’s actually incredibly moving. If you haven’t, rent the movie as soon as you finishing reading this post.
After seeing them in person last year, I was determined to join a chorus myself. I found The Brooklyn Community Chorus through a co-worker and was immediately drawn to them, mainly because there were NO AUDITIONS. It’s been a hoot and a half each week to rocket back to some of my happier high school moments in chorus with vocal warm ups, and singing Handel and reading music and, well, all the fun stuff that’s involved with being in a chorus. How wonderful it sounds when all those voices are singing! And chorus people are sort of preternaturally friendly.
But, now, well, gee . . . I’m sort of over it. First of all, since we’ve moved, it’s now a bit of a commute to get to chorus practice each week. Plus, it’s COLD outside, in case you haven’t noticed. I’m often not back until like 10:30 on Wednesday night, and, ahem, I’m kind of usually thinking about bed at 10:30, not just getting off the subway. There’s a big part of me that thinks I should stick with it, just to show I can. But another part feels like “okay, check that off the list and move on!” Is my attention span that short? Am I that lazy? Or is it perfectly okay to say it’s just not working for me right now?
