Life
As is tradition, within 3 days of commenting on Steff's LJ, I must write an entry so she may stay up to date on stalking me.
I like who I have come to be....from High School until now, first semester down of College. I love that I spend my days making music. My homework is all music, and I don't look at it as work because it really isn't. I enjoy doing it.
Today I went to an Orchestra rehearsal for the Opera. There were a few of us there. I got to sing the Bartolo part because I'm the u/s and the guy I'm understudying wasn't there. I really enjoyed so much singing in a group like that with the orchestra underneath us. I can't wait to really perform.
I've been working hard on the Opera stuff. Not as much as I should have but I'm starting to pick up as of today again. I spent all day...like 12-6 in my dorm room with the keyboard and the recording of Le Nozze di Figaro just trying to nail everything and memorize it. I've got the Act II and IV Finales down, my aria down, and the sextet. I just need to brush up on the recitatives.
(Side note, I'm listening to random choral songs in an on-line music library [Naxos], and I was like...this song sounds familiar, I think I've sang it before. It was "The Heavens Are Telling", except in German. I loved that piece senior year.]
I love my job at the Garden City Cathedral. I'm getting to see a lot of really great repetoire, and I'm working practically on a professional level there in the Men's Choir.
All in all, I feel like my life is at an all-time high right now. The sad thing is, what goes up must come down. I think I'll leave it at this for now.
*EDIT* I was the 100th post on Katie's facebook wall. That made me ultra-happy.
I like who I have come to be....from High School until now, first semester down of College. I love that I spend my days making music. My homework is all music, and I don't look at it as work because it really isn't. I enjoy doing it.
Today I went to an Orchestra rehearsal for the Opera. There were a few of us there. I got to sing the Bartolo part because I'm the u/s and the guy I'm understudying wasn't there. I really enjoyed so much singing in a group like that with the orchestra underneath us. I can't wait to really perform.
I've been working hard on the Opera stuff. Not as much as I should have but I'm starting to pick up as of today again. I spent all day...like 12-6 in my dorm room with the keyboard and the recording of Le Nozze di Figaro just trying to nail everything and memorize it. I've got the Act II and IV Finales down, my aria down, and the sextet. I just need to brush up on the recitatives.
(Side note, I'm listening to random choral songs in an on-line music library [Naxos], and I was like...this song sounds familiar, I think I've sang it before. It was "The Heavens Are Telling", except in German. I loved that piece senior year.]
I love my job at the Garden City Cathedral. I'm getting to see a lot of really great repetoire, and I'm working practically on a professional level there in the Men's Choir.
All in all, I feel like my life is at an all-time high right now. The sad thing is, what goes up must come down. I think I'll leave it at this for now.
*EDIT* I was the 100th post on Katie's facebook wall. That made me ultra-happy.