Towards the end of 2009, up until the very, very end of 2009, I found myself working more-or-less frantically to finish a choral piece which I had told my great uncle I would finish by the end of the year. During some of the -or-less frantic parts, I managed to come up with some of these gems.
So, did you hear about the church music director who was a union man? Apparently, he was the best organizer they’d ever seen.
Or on the other hand, perhaps you have heard about the music director whose vocal group was of an unusual configuration, meaning that he had to adapt many pieces of music to suit their unique characteristics, who also engaged in making collages with natural objects found during his scuba-diving expeditions to tropical reefs? Yeah, apparently he did some very nice choral arranging.
And finally, did you hear about that poor, poor music director who had aspired to the capture of a specific aquatic vertebrate animal covered with scales and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins (source: Wikipedia)? You may, then, have heard that he aspired thusly in the dead of winter when the animal’s freshwater habitat was ice-cold and utterly inhospitable. Unlucky man, he fell in, only to be rescued shortly by some folks who lived near the lake. He suffered from mild hypothermia, from which he recovered, thank God, and was miraculously untouched by frostbite – on which matter he was enormously fortunate. I am told that the poor man went bass-fishing, but was lucky to come away with all-toes.
