It's been some day since the last time i wrote something.
The reason for this blogpost is the trip to Trondheim with my new choir, the Oslo Voices. We have rehearsed around a dozen of songs, had a kind of test concert on last monday, and on friday the big day was there, meeting everyone from the choir at the gate, and flying to Trondheim.
I was quite lucky that I had a chance beforehand to have a short trip home to Austria, I would have had to buy a black suit, so I could just bring the one from home.
Anyway. We arrived in Trondheim, took the bus to our rather luxurious hotel (Radisson blu) and directly headed to our first appointment, singing for a relative of a guy in the choir. Then we changed to more comfy stuff and went to have dinner together. I there realised - those are all working people! They have money to spend! But the food was adequately wonderful. Around midnight, I was in bed, of course not without having been out to take some shots of the most important touristic sites.
Next morning - stunning breakfast buffet - rehearsal, concert in the afternoon at the Vår Frue Church. Dinner, sleep, breakfast, and then came the highlight of the week end - we sang in the Nidaros Dome, first a mass of Frank Martin during the service, and then four songs just on ourselves. Wonderful! In the afternoon we had another two concerts in the Vår Frue, but that was not THAT stunning.
Well, and that was it already. Flight back to Oslo and back to university-business.
The next day, as every monday, two lectures and choir rehearsal, now with christmas songs. Happy christmas everyone! It's unavoidable...
In the norwegian class, everyone who is too late has to make an extra homework. Last week, the teacher came too late. She couldn't really do homework, so she did make a carrot cake for us!
Next tour: Bergen, from whose hill I am writing these lines to you.
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