rehearsal today

was rather amusing. There's a lot of mediocre choral music out there, even by otherwise-thought-of-as-great composers. This Bruckner mass we're working on has some nice moments and some pretty lame ones.

About a year and a half ago, I had to sing Dubois's Seven Last Words of Christ. I have no idea how that work managed to get into standard reportory, but it sounds like something he might have written for eighth-grade composition class.

Oh, well. I suppose not everyone could write like Brahms. :)