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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
I can laugh about this now, but at the time, I was mortified!
Many years ago, I was in a London based choir and one performance was in St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The event was being recorded by Thames Television (shows how long ago that was!) as the programme was highly significant for some reason and anybody who was important was there.
These included Clergy, MP's, Landed Gentry, high ranking Armed Forces personnel and so on. There was a lavish reception first, then the event. I was due to sing a duet with one of our Contraltos; come the point in time, we walked out to the front of the stage as the orchestral introduction began.
Now, I never usually got nervous, but I was this time, but thought I'd be ok once I began singing, around 1 "bar" ahead of my female colleague. But as I drew in a deep breath and opened my mouth for my first word, all that emerged was.... "Buuuuuurp!"
Then my female colleague collapsed in fits of giggles, along with the chorus behind us, as did our orchestra, TV and stage crews. Looks that would kill came from the distinguished audience.
I wanted the Crypt below to open up and swallow me!
We did 2 retakes, but each time, whilst I was now OK, my female colleague, corpsed into giggles, and that section was shelved! |