Consonance 2003: more on what I sang
2003-03-10 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearDeciding what to sing in my "twofer" was surprisingly difficult. I never seem to have that problem with a 20-minute or longer concert slot, and of course the problem doesn't come up with a one-shot. But finding a pair of songs with some thematic relationship, and the right order to sing them in, was hard.
I originally planned to do " Millennium's Dawn", which is kind of a showpiece of mine (and which I had practiced!). I usually do it at the end of a set, followed by "Ship of Stone" -- but I'd already sung that. I could have done a pair of computer songs, but which ones? And there wouldn't really have been much to tie them together.
When Colleen suggested " Thrill-Seekers' Waltz" it did seem appropriate (it's a particularly sick and twisted take on the Challenger, and I'd recently updated the last verse slightly by changing "Vietnam War" to "Second Gulf War"), but it wasn't really a comfortable fit with "Millennium's Dawn". I did want to go out on a serious but upbeat note.
It wasn't until I was listening to some of the short concerts earlier that afternoon, only an hour or so before my set, that I realized that "The Mary Ellen Carter" hadn't been sung all weekend, and really needed to be.
I originally planned to do " Millennium's Dawn", which is kind of a showpiece of mine (and which I had practiced!). I usually do it at the end of a set, followed by "Ship of Stone" -- but I'd already sung that. I could have done a pair of computer songs, but which ones? And there wouldn't really have been much to tie them together.
When Colleen suggested " Thrill-Seekers' Waltz" it did seem appropriate (it's a particularly sick and twisted take on the Challenger, and I'd recently updated the last verse slightly by changing "Vietnam War" to "Second Gulf War"), but it wasn't really a comfortable fit with "Millennium's Dawn". I did want to go out on a serious but upbeat note.
It wasn't until I was listening to some of the short concerts earlier that afternoon, only an hour or so before my set, that I realized that "The Mary Ellen Carter" hadn't been sung all weekend, and really needed to be.