Spring festival

[vaneramos]

The Rainbow Chorus had been asked to perform in a local talent program at Guelph Spring Festival, a two-week music event in our fair city. At the venue yesterday afternoon, Old Quebec Street indoor mall, we were treated to a teenage soprano (Maria Antonakis?). She had one of the clearest, most crystalline voices I have ever heard. Sarah Brightman, move over. “Vilya,” “Poor Wandering One,” and “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” also something by Schubert or Schumann. Les commented she was technically perfect but lacked stage presence.

“I bet she’s awfully young,” I replied. “She doesn’t have the experience or confidence yet.”

Then the woman nearby told us the girl was 15.

By the end of our gig, the mall teemed with lesbians and babies. Mollie has a wispy halo of hair, blonde like Tana’s, and toddles around with beatific wrecklessness.

The biggest attraction was Catherine and Lynn’s baby, Koen Alexander Brown, born on April 26. I needed to touch his velvet scalp.

Moe asked whether I remember my daughters that small. In my head I do. I can still see Marian’s intense blue eyes; Brenna lifted gaping from her mother’s belly. But my arms have lost their memory.

Comments

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

stage presence...

great entry

i remember that age, i remember that with my whole body

"my arms have lost thier memory" wow, my heart and arms remember and ache from the remembering.

be well

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

My mind aches with wishing I could. It's the worst legacy of the terrible depression I went through in the mid 90s. What a blessing to find this old snippet:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/vaneramos/319866.html

I didn't keep a journal regularly in those days. Now I record obsessively, and hope it will someday fill in the gaps where memory fails.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Wow. A 15-year-old who can sing Poor Wandering One might have great things ahead of her, if she's not pushed too hard.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Despite Les's comment about her stage presence, she seemed quite self-possessed. After her performance quite a few of us from the choir gave her compliments as she passed. She turned to each one and replied graciously and with great poise. I see the rise of a young star.

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

wow, great snippet

that agonizing, that wanting/needing to be a good father! that i feel.

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

The babies were the lesbians' children? (sigh--imagines a mall full of lesbian mothers and their babies0

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

At least four lesbian couples among my friends from the choir have had babies in the past two years, and another couple recently adopted their second child. The Children's Aid in Ontario is actively seeking same-sex couples to adopt children because it's hard to find parents for those who are less than "perfect," i.e. nonwhite, developmentally challenged or more than a year old, and there are no barriers for same-sex couples to adopt.

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

[beams with joy] Wonderful! so everyone's happy?