I am so behind in updating this journal that I may very well meet myself coming the other way.

Updates: fneh.

I shall tell you instead of a conversation I had with my Singer Enabler Friend Anna this evening on facecrack.

Anna is the one who got me to audition for my current course, which I am one concert and one essay away from finshing...WOW.

SEF ( Read more... )

FIRST WEEK DONE AND DUSTED.

To fully render my feelings of glee-n-squee unto you is not possible without the use of dancing unicorns, sparkly rainbows and kittens riding about on fluffy bunnies.  So I shall simply say: it was joyful to be doing this.

And I am (unlike many of the stewents there) fully mindful of the joyousnessness. Ness. Of the doing.

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...and I don't mean as in "quiet happiness".

I have both (a) actual things to say and (b) BIG LOUD HAPPINESS: I have a gig!  With an orchestra!  Ha!

Okay YES, it's a community orchestra, and a community choir, and the gigs will be in the far-flung parts of Melbourne....but finally: I get to sing with an orchestra!

It is (finally, after so many fits ( Read more... )

TAKE ME TO YOUR LIEDER

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Concert on 21st August.

TWENT Y DAYS TO GO.  METRIC FUCKTON OF MUSIC TO LEARN.

If you don't like hearing someone obsess about music and the correct pronunciation of the word "durch" (which is sort of "doo-oy-er-chhhhhh" but don't quote me) then - yeah. You're screwed.

Later.

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I sang Let the Bright Seraphim (that's the one sung at the Other Royal Wedding) this morning in my lesson, and suddenly transformed into Someone Who Can do Twiddly High Bits ( Read more... )

As I have liederfest tomorrow night (or at least my heat in same), AND as the makeup was running low AND as I desire a more glamorous look for performing, today I bit the bullet and went and got my makeup revised by the lovely Lisa the beautician (seriously: as well as being completely lovely as a person she is just stunning, in a Love-in-a-Cold- ( Read more... )

WHAT A DAY!

Thanks to the lovely peeps in Gloriana Chamber Choirwho allowed me to be a ring-in 2nd soprano to sing the magnificent, pants-wettingly-good Rachmaninoff Vespers, to an overflowing church full of lovely responsive audience.

Responsive?  They actually drummed their feet on the floor of the all-polished-wood church and clapped for ( Read more... )

So, I saw on Facebook that Diamond Valley Singers (with whom I have done Cavalleria Rusticana and the Verdi Requiem) were doing a Flood Relief Concert for those poor sods in Queensland who have been given a proper shellacking by Nature recently, so I clicked “yes I’ll come”.  (Yes No 1)

Then they said, “do you want to sing something” and I said, “ ( Read more... )

Cos today I sang this in my lesson (*swoon*)(although I did not have asian subtitles plastered over my  boobs, I'm sure I would have noticed).

And then finally found a decent translation online (on DW? but of course); and one of the comments I found when googling away said they'd always regarded this aria as the Singer's Manifesto.

Yeah, I can get ( Read more... )