the oracle of lo - fi

I sang in the Marian Vespers of 1610 with the Washington Chorus and the NSO when I was a senior in high school. It was amazing, and difficult, and beautiful. It was intimidating, too, because of all the Monteverdi people who go to every performance of the Vespers because they don't get performed very often. The way it was performed was that certain portions of soli and other sections were assigned to a women's chorus and a men's chorus. The men's chorus was the Washington Men's Camerata, one of the best men's choirs in the world. THe women? The Annandale High School women. The girls form the madrigal group and a few from the women's ensemble. It was really quite scary. Then later that year, the madrigals (of which I was one) sang "Io mi songiovinetta" which is sooo pretty!