Back to basics

At my lesson today, I worked on the four classical pieces I am preparing for NATS in February 2011. It was the first time I had run all of them with Lilly, and there is a long way to go. On Luke Havergal, I broke on the line "Our of the grave I come." (How is this for a great Halloween song, by the way?) Lilly reminded me of one of the first rules of singing: Hold the vowel, carry that word's ending consonants to the beginning of the next word. Thus "grave I come" becomes "grah veye come." Simple lesson, but I had forgotten it, and as soon as I sang it this way I didn't have any troubles. Lesson learned, yes. Lesson remembered? Time will tell.