After the service this morning, Roy the organist handed out the song line-up for the next month. Knowing that Emily, the other American postgrad alto, and I have had a bit of trouble with some of the hymns thus far - either we've never seen or heard them before at all, we know the tune but the text is different, or the text is on one page and the tune on another - he smiled and said, "Christmas carols are Christmas carols. They can't be that unfamiliar, right?"
Well, Emily and I looked at next week's selections. Except for "O Come, O Come Emanuel," we knew nothing. Nada.
Figuring that next Sunday morning was not the best time to rectify this, we borrowed the sanctuary piano and did a little one-finger part tapping. My piano skills are subpar, but they worked well enough for the Inept American Alto Section.
At least we can usually fake it. Roy offered to take up a collection to fly us back over for the rest of the month.
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