There are some words that people just like the sound of. For the choir, one such word is "snippets"; I heard it voiced many times at rehearsal last night.
Every year at this time, Rick chooses brief excerpts from a few of the Lessons and Carols selections, and the choir sings these snippets at the beginning of the worship service a week before L&C Sunday. It's sort of an advertisement for L&C, a sneak preview of the service. Last night, Dee passed out photocopies containing the snippets, and Rick led us through it a couple of times. The whole thing takes only about a minute to sing; but in that short time, Rick's selections nicely illustrate the variety of the music that will be offered at the L&C service -- with the tranquil "What Sweeter Music" followed by the rollicking "Methinks I See an Heavenly Host", then the gentle Scottish lullaby "Baloo Lammy", and finally the familiar, triumphant closing bars of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing".
(I noticed when I looked up the definition of snippet printed above that there was a second meaning: a small or insignificant person. As I have tried to make clear in this blog, no one in our choir is thought to be insignificant. The only snippets you will find in the choir loft are those photocopied music excerpts.)
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