Best-laid plans! We all arrived at the church, traffic tie-ups notwithstanding, and the weather could not have been better – mild (at least till sundown) and dry. Now if we could just arrange for the TTC to find another way around that corner…
Poor Ross arrived with his game face on despite the neck brace – from an intermittent chronic condition. He assured me it was not Norm and I just being a pain in the neck. (Although we are I guess.) He knew to stay away from part of my lovely snack tray – I forgot his allergy to fowl! He played beautifully anyway.
The second session was vocally a little easier and not only because I was a little more familiar with the room and the whole set up but also because the range and nature of the songs – a little less aria and a little more intimacy. Fortunately our Sound Wizard, Doug Blais from Juggling Realities, was able to pick up every nuance. For the first time in our recordings, Norm and I sang together, Norm at the piano hammering out a Finnish tango and both of us having fun with his spoof dedicated to a certain nameless maestro (who shall remain so). That was just just fun.
Next week – back to Knox United to wrap it up with SIX pieces with the inimitable Moshe Hammer on violin and Ross on piano. Norm at the head set making sure we get it right – or turning pages to make sure we keep going.
Large glass of wine for anyone still standing at the end of that session!
