Mini Motab

So my ward choir is amazing! I'm not being sarcastic. I think there are members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir who are working undercover for our choir director. Maybe our director is really Craig Jessop in the witness protection program or a professor on loan from Julliard or something.
I came to practice after church a couple of weeks ago to "check out the scene." Our director/musical Nazi immediately handed me the entire score of the Messiah and told me to start memorizing it. While the tenors were going over their part, I congenially asked the alto next to me if they had been working on this a long time. She stealthily glanced from side to side and whispered,"oh, for a couple of weeks." Then the director told us to "button it--social time is over." It was like a flash-back to middle school. I think she actually would have given me detention in the bishop's office if she could have. Several tasteful selections from the Messiah were then followed by seven other complicated songs that I have only heard previously issuing forth from the lips of professional singing groups.
I am feeling a little intimidated by it all, but maybe if I sing very softly in the back row, they will let me stay. If I am missing after church next Sunday, you will know I have just been translated with the rest of the La Crescenta First Ward "heavenly choir."