Heavenly music again at my place last week as the girls prepared their audition pieces for Horsham Arts Council’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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Unfortunately, I am officially not allowed to hear my three daughters sing. So with this inexplicable restriction in place, I was forced to undertake masses of very quiet and covert tidying/listening in recent times.
Our gorgeous timber stairs creak terribly, so it was awfully tricky sneaking up to straighten the towels in the upstairs bathroom without being caught.
This tiptoe move did however allow me to hear just enough of eleven year old Tiani’s Jungle Book piece I Wanna Be Like You, to feel confident she was sweetly on song.
To overhear Katianna’s beautiful The Girl I Mean To Be from Secret Garden, I had to stand at the bottom of the stairs looking like a busy middle aged woman lost in thought about where on earth she had been headed – a breeze to pull off under the circumstances.
Those glorious high notes from my 15-year-old floated through her closed door, washed over the landing and slid down the bannisters to greet me on the ground floor and make me sigh.
At least this inadvertently added to my overall look of lostness, I thought.
Yasinta ensured my pursuit of her practice was most challenging by completing the bulk of her preparation outside, wandering around the block with her iPad.
Quite prepared to loiter in the chook yard for as long as it took, my thirteen year old foiled my plans by being a fast mover.
I was forced to try to catch her singing in her bedroom chamber.
As her room is directly above mine, I spent an extended period of time smoothing my bedcover, and placing the pillows just so.
Singing The World Above, from The Little Mermaid, my 13-year-old’s voice was a delight.
And the amount of noise coming through her floor to my ceiling indicated she had a pretty comprehensive dance routine rehearsed up there as well.
With their auditions now over, and that breathtaking feeling of relief fading away, the girls have moved on to nervously awaiting casting news.
Ican only hope they are successful so that the heavenly music will return in full force.
Yolande Grosser
A Mum’s World appears each Monday in the Wimmera Mail-Times.
