Susanna, I hope I don't make you too homesick in reading this. But I was just thinking about all the times you and ML and I have had to sing for things and haven't been able to stop laughing, either while practicing or on the unfortunate occasion, in performance. Remember the awful Gaudete incident? And the lyrics to In the Bleak Midwinter? And a long time ago, at LSM, when we had to sing The Song of Hannah, with "Shmuel?"
I don't know what it was about singing with you guys that made everything a billion times funnier. I mean, when I played Popeye, there were any number of occasions to laugh, and others did, but I can't remember ever breaking character.* Maybe I've grown more serious, or maybe it was just my general lack of humor as of recent, but I think it has more to do with the company. We were probably also really easily distracted whenever dad was trying to go through music with us. Plus, I think the fact that we were always a little on edge in those rehearsals didn't help anything. Haha.
Whenever we are all three together again, we should record some stuff.
*Oh man, remember Grif? Was that with two f's? Griff? I don't remember. What I do remember is "red, red, blue" and him saying that he would come and drag us off stage if we broke character. And now I'm just thinking of all the times I have broken character during rehearsal and narrowly prevented breaking character on stage. Oh...so many memories! That's really one of the best parts of performance, isn't it? The relationships and memories you form with people along the way, just out of the process of creating something.
Hmm. I'm trying to imagine the same thing coming out of a career in science. It's hard for me to imagine because I don't think I've ever experienced it. And maybe that's what I'm afraid of losing. Well, if I get an internship this summer, hopefully I will find an answer. If not, I will go to Israel and find other answers :)
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I sang a doctored version of the "What Child is This" at Peace one Sunday when y'all were in Korea. And I got all choked up because I thought about the three of us singing it together!!
And then I ended up telling tons of people in the Peace choir about the Gaudate incident and how you guys keeled over in laughter and hid behind the railing of the balcony while I was forced to sing, pinkfaced, the melody to Gaudate all alone. The funniest part is your guys' slow ascension back to standing at my side to sing the song. Did that actually happen, or did you hide until the piece ended? I forget. But God, that's a great story.
Remember the time dad added the note, singing from the piano at the end of "This Little Babe" and he was all, "it needed a tonic!"
(Considers.) Hmm. Well. If I were a wiseman, I would do my part.
And...
"Hannah and Elkanah, called the boy, Schmuh..." (we all burst out laughing.)
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