So, the music director is away on vacation. I arrived an hour early as always to warm up and go over things with the woman who was leading hymns while the director is gone. She finally shows up around 20 minutes before the service starts. Then i hear knocking on the doors and discover they are all still locked, I was not told I was now in charge of opening the building. We are still the only music people there at this point. Finally at ten minutes til, the people in charge of the antiquated and notoriously difficult sound system show up and proceed to fiddle around with that and argue with the hymn leader. As expected she messed up almost every one and thankfully the pastor's wife had a strong enough voice to fix the problems as they unfolded. And to make it even better, I left a book I needed at home and had to pick something else for offertory on the fly. Pastor then takes the opportunity to make a puzzling and somewhat rude comment about it after service, to the effect of "You don't always have to play xyz composer" Dude I literally just pulled this out because I had to think fast and correct my own mistake, maybe silence will be better for you next week??! I will give him benefit of the doubt because he is a very sweet person and sometimes doesn't realize how he says things. He does have an especially particular fondness for Vaughan Williams and it was a complete fluke that I used the piece, it was there and the originally planned piece was at home, so I grabbed it. Maybe he meant "You dont have to play it just for me"? But it didn't come out that nicely. Either way it was a deflating blow after having to hold everything together this morning.
I love my job...yep...love it...
:-(