First, I entirely forgot to talk about the much-anticipated (by me) Homage (that's ['ha.mɪdʒ]) with Renée. To start, I think I'd give it about 4.5 stars. "Poveri fiori" is meh with some nice low notes but a bit too much scooping. I'm not familiar with the Russian arias, but they're really growing on me--especially the Smetana and Tchaikovsky--and ( Read more... )

The weather outside is really gross right now. It started out as cold rain, then went to freezing rain, and then snow, leaving a horrible mess on the ground. Oh, and it's really windy and cold. Bletch ( Read more... )

I was going to write a full post, but I just ran out of time. Here are some links regarding my whereabouts the following few days:

Convention
Press Release
New Orleans Concert

Oh, and I have a solo in one of the pieces we're singing at the convention. Whee! I'll be back with updates. Tschau!

TGIF. Can I get an "Amen" over here? Today was hellacious, but next week will be even worse--mainly because I didn't make it hellacious enough for myself this week. *sigh ( Read more... )

Sorry for the post lull. Midterms and other scholarly baggage stormed my week ( Read more... )

My voice lesson on Friday sucked far less. What he's telling me to do is finally making sense, but it doesn't make the previous lesson suck any less (seriously, I almost wanted to give up singing, except I knew I wouldn't). So, it comes down to the fact that I haven't been using my breath correctly in my upper register. Instead of relaxing my vocal ( Read more... )

Choir was fine. Practice was slightly disappointing. Am I getting worse, or have I finally realized more of what I'm doing wrong? But anyway, most of singing today wasn't all that interesting.

The real raison d'être for this post: Homage. This looks like the sort of album [we] Fleming fans have been waiting for. The Age of the Diva has tributes ( Read more... )

Yarrrr. It be "Talk Like a Pirate Day." You should see me whiteboard. Avast! No biochem today! But we did learn about scurrrrvy yesterday. Aye, college students seem to be an at-risk group. Eat yer limes, everyone ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention one positive moment from the lesson on Friday. He said I reminded him of himself freshman year when his teacher said his voice had something special that just needed to be brought out. Now, I don't particularly like his voice, but I understand what he means. I do think that "something special" leaps out in the practice room from ( Read more... )

Sorry for taking so long to update, but I got back rather late both Friday and Saturday evenings ( Read more... )