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i'm feeling good and optimistic-ish today so far. dinner is in the slow cooker, bach is on the stereo, willa is sleeping in her carrier. i have as much of the day as she'll give me to get ready to start rehearsing carmina burana tonight.
i've never performed carmina before. so many people love it, but my prof from my current (stalled out) program hates it. and after spending a lot of the past week with it, i can see all the sides. from the choral singer's perspective, it's pretty easy. at least in terms of note-learning. there are some vocally challenging spots and there is a LOT of text in latin and german, but overall, it's surprisingly simple. which is probably why my prof hates it and i can understand that too. orff was composing when stravinsky was, which makes this music looks like a child's drawing next to a kandinsky. but. it's fun. and i think that's what it really comes down to. we'll be performing it with a wind ensemble - two of their concerts in may and one of ours in june. i'll conduct the june concert and there's no way that won't be incredibly fun. big and noisy. i can be down with that.
this weekend was lovely. we had a picnic to celebrate my birthday (a little early). and we went to cora's first birthday party. i still find it so hard to believe she's just about 7 months older than willa. she's walking around and understanding what people say to her and eating real food and... all kinds of stuff i really can't picture willa doing. it's so exciting to know that's coming, though.
in the mean time, willa had a good weekend after a bad week of night waking and crankiness. i should say that to me 'night waking' means waking up and staying awake fussing or crying - or sometimes just making noise, not just waking up to eat, which she does every night and i'm at peace with that. we've been seeing a homeopath and i don't know if the remedy has been responsible for changes and improvements, but if not, it's an impressive coincidence. at the very least, our homeopath is a very involved and calming presence and it's really nice to have someone else taking the colic/fussiness seriously and working on figuring it out.
one of the most amazing things in the world is willa waking up in the morning. when she wakes and realizes that we're awake too and it's morning time, her whole face lights up with this amazing smile. it's pretty much the best way to wake up that ever was. it makes an optimistic morning possible.
i've never performed carmina before. so many people love it, but my prof from my current (stalled out) program hates it. and after spending a lot of the past week with it, i can see all the sides. from the choral singer's perspective, it's pretty easy. at least in terms of note-learning. there are some vocally challenging spots and there is a LOT of text in latin and german, but overall, it's surprisingly simple. which is probably why my prof hates it and i can understand that too. orff was composing when stravinsky was, which makes this music looks like a child's drawing next to a kandinsky. but. it's fun. and i think that's what it really comes down to. we'll be performing it with a wind ensemble - two of their concerts in may and one of ours in june. i'll conduct the june concert and there's no way that won't be incredibly fun. big and noisy. i can be down with that.
this weekend was lovely. we had a picnic to celebrate my birthday (a little early). and we went to cora's first birthday party. i still find it so hard to believe she's just about 7 months older than willa. she's walking around and understanding what people say to her and eating real food and... all kinds of stuff i really can't picture willa doing. it's so exciting to know that's coming, though.
in the mean time, willa had a good weekend after a bad week of night waking and crankiness. i should say that to me 'night waking' means waking up and staying awake fussing or crying - or sometimes just making noise, not just waking up to eat, which she does every night and i'm at peace with that. we've been seeing a homeopath and i don't know if the remedy has been responsible for changes and improvements, but if not, it's an impressive coincidence. at the very least, our homeopath is a very involved and calming presence and it's really nice to have someone else taking the colic/fussiness seriously and working on figuring it out.
one of the most amazing things in the world is willa waking up in the morning. when she wakes and realizes that we're awake too and it's morning time, her whole face lights up with this amazing smile. it's pretty much the best way to wake up that ever was. it makes an optimistic morning possible.