Well, we had our first rehearsal with PDQ (Peter Schickele) tonight. He's a great guy--and very approachable. I got his autograph and a whole bunch of us took turns getting photos with him. I told him that our chorus is a real good one for this concert--we firmly believe in PDQ Bach's motto--"Loud is good, fast is better, loud and fast is best". In fact our director is always telling us that increasing the volume is not the solution to any music problem--but it doesn't seem to register for more than a few minutes in any given rehearsal.

I think he said he's 71--so no more entering the concert hall by swinging in on a rope. Ah well--it'll still be a great concert. How could it not be with "By the leeks of Babylon/ ee-i-ee-i-o There we sat down, yea we wept/ ee-i-ee-i o? " (to the appropriate tune, of course)

More details later.