Ditz has been an only child for a week. She likes being an only child. Liddy says bluntly we should have discarded the male prototypes & only kept the one perfect girl ~ her!
Today Liddy came home.
Today Ditz had her singing audition.
Today Ma came over to the island for lunch having driven Liddy down the coast.
Ma thinks Liddy is pretty special too. Not only was she the first grand~daughter after all those boys but her misguided parents named her after her maternal grandmother. Dearest, who has a wicked sense of humour, arrived home from the hospital shaking his head & announcing sadly that James James, Morrison Morrison, or whatever name we had actually decided upon for a boy, was a wonderful name but unfortunately inappropriate for a girl! My mother went from concealed disappointment to tears of happiness in a matter of moments & Liddy has a special place in her heart in consequence.
We got a pretty pleasant day & had lunch on the verandah. Ma does like a good water view!
It was a pretty quick visit. Ma had a psychotic cat waiting for her at home too & a long drive back to boot ~ & we had Ditz. If you prayed ~ Many Thanks. Ditz was nervous but not overly so. Some of that was simply she knew what to expect this time. Some of it was we've put up with Ditz for weeks going up & down her scales & doing her "Whees" & "whooops"! And practising her choice of song over & over...& over.
Triads ~ consistent, which is good news. Sight reading ~ good. Scales ~ yep. Only then was Ditz asked to sing. Now Alison, like me, can remember back 18 months to when she first worked with Ditz, a Ditz who hunched her shoulders & slouched & sang so softly there was no way anyone was going to hear her over the big sound of other singers. That was not the Ditz who fronted today. Todays Ditz stood tall with excellent posture & she let rip. When she was done Alison was silent & then she just said 'Wow.' Even I can hear the difference in Ditz's voice. We have our fingers crossed that Ditz has made the smaller, more select AVAE ensemble which will have only 16 members. If Alison runs true to form this will form the core of the larger choir & Ditz would perform with both.
Nice things got said about Ditz's singing...& about how her voice is developing. That makes for a happy Ditz because Alison Rocks!
4 comments:
WOW, congrats on the improvement!! Fingers crossed.
You wanted to name your son after Jim Morrison?? :p
Noooo, Little Jimmy Morrison was named for the poem I quoted ~ James James, Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree,\Took great care of his mother though he was only three...A.A.Milne :)
Good luck to Ditz. I just spend time catching up. You've been busy! I hope school goes well and I'm glad your cat has you back home. : )
My parents were told that my younger sister was most certainly a boy. They ran out for the "must have" boy item of the moment, picked out a boy name, and bought boy clothing. All of which looked lovely on my sister.
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