A Musical Evening Essay

No, I havent been to a musical (lately). But Friday my choir and I had an appointment with, well, the rest of the population here, really. The local choirs (5) and whoever else who wanted to come along, were gathered to sing. The choirs had 2-3 songs each in between, just the rest was pure singalong (not karaoke..).Before passing I felt as if I was a hundred years old, because thats what I expected the average age of the people attending to be but no such thing. Admittedly, average age was possibly 50, but there was such a genial atmosphere, and fun songs to sing It was great auditory sense to the other choirs and there was even food and drink.Very un-Norwegianly, people smiled and talked to complete strangers, and I doubt not that the compere was right when he said you couldnt sing and be a sourpuss. I didnt feel like a hundred years old, and I even answered when called upon by strangersIll meet give you a couple examples of the singalong (as usual, its sound only for atmosphe re, the localities where wrapped in semi-darkness). Its not particularly beautiful, but its pleasing of silly-funny, its two songs phonetically translated to Norwegian Ferje over Mjsa (= ferry cross Mjsa, from ferry cross the Mersey, of course at least its about a ferry ride too) and Du kan godt f sitte innte meg Leif (= feel free to move in closer, Leif, from got to get you into my life its got absolutely nothing to do with the original, but it sounds like it)Our performance? It wasnt too bad, actually. Wed had two practice sessions before this evening The second song (a medley) I wont go into, but the first one had several people coming over to us afterwards saying things like most(prenominal) enchanting of the evening, most special and most true (= in tune) singing theyd ever heard. I can live with that.