I feel like I'm beating my head against the wall, trying to learn the music for Labor. What I really need is a music coach- someone who can sit with me at a piano and teach me all the weird measures and guide me through the songs until I get a better grasp on them. This person should ideally want to be paid in cookies. Tucker's music is just ( Read more... )

John Tavener has passed away at the age of 69

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I found Tavener's work when I was still in high school and fell in love with his simplicity and the incredible grace and power of his music. I've been lucky enough to sing his work on a few occasions: "The Lamb," of course, but CCS commissioned a carol from him about five years ago that I loved, and ( Read more... )

In my defense... I've been VERY BUSY ( Read more... )

I am trying to work through the live recordings we made in New Orleans two weeks ago for those who wanted to experience the concerts via the magic of ~*technology*~ and I have come up with A SAMPLE FOR YOU!

I put this up on my tumblr just now: myself singing "Primal Love," my wink-wink-nudge-nudgeHEY IT'S TOTES ABOUT BESTIALITY Y'ALL song. The ( Read more... )

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So this is what I've been spending most of my evenings lately preparing for:

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Ok, yes, it's for a semi-staged version so we don't actually get to be QUITE that badass, but I assure you, Eschenbach's tempi are pretty comparable to Lenny's at the presto molto ( Read more... )

So remember how I decided to try having principles and not renew my paid LJ features for this year? Yeah, I maybe caved. I just don't UNDERSTAND Dreamwidth, not really, and like. MY ICONS. I MISSED them. It's a terrible line of reasoning, but for the time being, I have caved and you may feel free to judge me ( Read more... )

After a long and intense weekend of rehearsing for Love, I pretty much went into hibernation mode on Sunday. I woke up at 8am (because I am tragically incapable of sleeping late these days), but didn't leave bed until 10:30, at which time I made breakfast and got right back into bed. I read my book (rereading The Orchid Affair), I watched movies ( Read more... )

My paid LJ account runs out at the end of the week, so here I am, giving my perpetually underused DW account a whirl. I won't be getting rid of LJ any time soon- too many of us are still there, and my friends list just makes SENSE to me- but I'm considering posting from DW from now on, and potentially upgrading to a paid account here. I just don' ( Read more... )

So! I should make the official announcement that I'm singing in Brooklyn on Friday, March 2 at the Montauk Club. :) I don't have any other information right now about time or how to see the show, but, woohoo!

And now back to my regularly scheduled Monday Job-Related Stress and Do Not Want.