Something fun!
Here is something fun, just because I can.
This is a video of my jazz vocal group from when we sang with the big band in October. I laugh at several things about this video. One, that I'm just finding it now; two, that we look like retards because we're still using sheet music, and trying to use a microphone and sing from music is stupidly hard and really stupid-looking no matter how you do it; and three, that I look like a retard just because I do, apparently, when I sing and try to dance when I'm clearly not a dancer. At all. Anyways, thought you'd enjoy it. That and my lack of proper sentence structure. That's always good for a hoot!
I also had another gig on Monday. Monday at about noon, I was at school checking my email to look up a rehearsal time; this same jazz vocal group was doing our final concert that night, and Tess and Ann and I were doing a trio piece, and needed to rehearse it before we sang it. Anyways, I checked my mail looking for the time we'd decided on, and there was a message in my inbox from David, the group's director, sent on Saturday. It said "Erin, call me as soon as you get this message! I have a gig for you with my jazz vocal group on Monday. We are going to rehearse on Sunday, and we need a soprano sub." Mentally, I'm kicking myself, because even though the gig's not happened yet, I figured they must have gotten someone to sub by now, it being the day of the freakin' gig. So, I called David to apologise for not checking my email on the weekend, but when he picked up the phone after I told him who it was, he just said "Can you still do the gig?" and I said "Umm... yeah..." and he told me to come to his office after my class, and he'd give me the charts, and after the Berklee choir's recital, we'd take a cab to the hotel that the gig was at. I was just like... okay... so it was awesome! I'm still amazed that out of all the vocal faculty and the vocal students at Berklee that David could have asked to sub, he chose me. I think it's a huge compliment... and the gig went super-well. It was another instance of trying to use music with microphones, only this time we didn't have mic stands, which made it all that much more awkward. BUT! The actual singing was good, and the other people in the group were impressed, or at least seemed to be. I took the T home with the bass, Lee, who also lives on the B line, and he said that they're looking for a new soprano in the group anyways, and that I should audition for the spot when the time comes. I'm actually considering it; it will depend on whether I think there will be enough gigs with the group to justify my possibly staying in Boston over the summer and making enough money to go back to school in the fall. So... I'm not sure yet... and they didn't offer me the position, they just suggested I audition, so it doesn't really mean anything anyways. But... yeah... it's kind of exciting. I like singing with people who can sing, as I've said many times before!
And that's all for tonight!
This is a video of my jazz vocal group from when we sang with the big band in October. I laugh at several things about this video. One, that I'm just finding it now; two, that we look like retards because we're still using sheet music, and trying to use a microphone and sing from music is stupidly hard and really stupid-looking no matter how you do it; and three, that I look like a retard just because I do, apparently, when I sing and try to dance when I'm clearly not a dancer. At all. Anyways, thought you'd enjoy it. That and my lack of proper sentence structure. That's always good for a hoot!
I also had another gig on Monday. Monday at about noon, I was at school checking my email to look up a rehearsal time; this same jazz vocal group was doing our final concert that night, and Tess and Ann and I were doing a trio piece, and needed to rehearse it before we sang it. Anyways, I checked my mail looking for the time we'd decided on, and there was a message in my inbox from David, the group's director, sent on Saturday. It said "Erin, call me as soon as you get this message! I have a gig for you with my jazz vocal group on Monday. We are going to rehearse on Sunday, and we need a soprano sub." Mentally, I'm kicking myself, because even though the gig's not happened yet, I figured they must have gotten someone to sub by now, it being the day of the freakin' gig. So, I called David to apologise for not checking my email on the weekend, but when he picked up the phone after I told him who it was, he just said "Can you still do the gig?" and I said "Umm... yeah..." and he told me to come to his office after my class, and he'd give me the charts, and after the Berklee choir's recital, we'd take a cab to the hotel that the gig was at. I was just like... okay... so it was awesome! I'm still amazed that out of all the vocal faculty and the vocal students at Berklee that David could have asked to sub, he chose me. I think it's a huge compliment... and the gig went super-well. It was another instance of trying to use music with microphones, only this time we didn't have mic stands, which made it all that much more awkward. BUT! The actual singing was good, and the other people in the group were impressed, or at least seemed to be. I took the T home with the bass, Lee, who also lives on the B line, and he said that they're looking for a new soprano in the group anyways, and that I should audition for the spot when the time comes. I'm actually considering it; it will depend on whether I think there will be enough gigs with the group to justify my possibly staying in Boston over the summer and making enough money to go back to school in the fall. So... I'm not sure yet... and they didn't offer me the position, they just suggested I audition, so it doesn't really mean anything anyways. But... yeah... it's kind of exciting. I like singing with people who can sing, as I've said many times before!
And that's all for tonight!