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[perpetualdreamr]

Sooooo, we're singing Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" along with the orchestra. Two words for you: cartalige destruction. We sing a brief passage in the beginning of the work, then stand there unmoving for about twenty-five minutes while the instrumentalists get to go nuts while sitting (except for the basses, poor guys), then burst in once again for

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[madcowgirl4h]

...a "first" soprano who can't reach an A? I can possibly understand a B... but if she can't reach an A then she should be a second soprano.

[perpetualdreamr]

Well technically at our age, we shouldn't be able to hit those notes and hold them for very long. A woman's voice doesn't mature until she hits 45, 50 years old. But yeah, she should be among the seconds if she has problems with those notes.