point and counterpoint

It will surely mean busy week­ends to come.

My order of new music sheets just arrived in the mail. I went to the post office to pick it up, ini­tially hes­i­tant that I might get taxed Great Book Block­ade style. Hap­pily, I only paid the stan­dard han­dling fee (that’s PhP 35, regard­less of the size of the pack­age) and left the pack­age claims desk immediately.

In my excite­ment, I went to one of the writ­ing areas in the mid­dle of the post office and imme­di­ately opened the pack­age. The smell of fresh paper greeted me as soon as I ripped the large envelop open, and there I found an octavo of an offer­tory, a set of six octavos for a hymn and a small col­lec­tion of anthems. (And the best thing is, I got orig­i­nals, not “pirated” copies. And, no, I will not share these songs to other choirs. Mani­gas kayo, bahala kay­ong bumili ng sar­ili niny­ong pyesa )

I still couldn’t resist read­ing the pieces when I got back in the office (I came just well within the grace period, so I was still tech­ni­cally doing it dur­ing my free time). It’s Tues­day, choir ser­vice (and pos­si­ble rehearsal) is on Sat­ur­day, and now I feel the urge to teach at least one or two of the songs to my singers. But it’s still Tues­day. Choir will have to wait.

And this only means, busy days are here again (dum dee dum…)

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Speak­ing of…two copies of Be Thou My Vision are already reserved for each of my two choirs. I’m plan­ning to give one copy to one of my for­mer choir­mas­ters in the parish. But I have three more extra copies. Any tak­ers? Before I change my mind, that is