Tried an experiment based on something I read in an article about teaching choirboys, and to my surprise it worked. If I hold a strip of paper up right in front of my mouth when I'm practising, it doesn't flutter or lift even when I'm singing quite loudly, and in fact I can feel with my hand that there's very little 'breeze' being created ( Read more... )

The concert went off quite well, the main issues being that (a) I forgot part of my costume and (b) didn't leave enough time to warm up my voice before I left home -- I was assured we would be able to warm up after the safety talk at the hall, but in fact we weren't ( Read more... )

Apparently I've acquired a twitch in my right eye when I sing; I've checked in a mirror, and it's true :-(

Since I can't feel it, let alone control it consciously, the only thing I can do is try to make sure no-one sees me sing in close-up :-(

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Apparently the professional musicians who were present for the Requiem a few weeks ago were asking who the unknown soloist was, and saying what a good voice I had.
Which is nice.

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I've been asked to sing a last-minute solo for the Fauré Requiem on Friday. It's not musically difficult, but... two days to learn and rehearse the part for a funeral service in a full church. Eeek. This entry was originally posted at http://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/66471.html, where there are
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I have tonight been asked, as an emergency measure, to perform the verses to various music-hall songs this Thursday as a solo while the group that was originally supposed to be singing them joins in on the choruses - on the grounds that none of them know the tunes to the verses properly (or at all), and can't learn them in the time available ( Read more... )