Browsing the archives for the singing category
One of the reasons I haven’t been as active in my blog recently is that I don’t want to bore you with the common drudgery of my daily life (get up, exercise, work, practice, more work, rehearse, go to bed, get up and start the whole day over again). But it occurs to me that [...]
In December, a big winter storm blew through Philadelphia on the second day of the Philadelphia Singers‘ Christmas on Logan Square concert. An email went around to the singers announcing that despite bad weather conditions, the show would still go on. Singers and audience members alike were offered a special group rate at a nearby [...]
Well, it happened again; I went back to singing for High Holy Days, although not in Deal this time.
Now that I have a Germanic last name, I figured I wouldn’t have to change it to something more Semitic this time, but one of the first things the cantor brought up with me was the “problem” [...]
One of the unfortunate parts of trying to run my own business is that I have very little money with which to do so. Since it’s not Christmas yet, all I have in the way of cash flow is some savings that I put aside and my (gulp) credit cards. I’m trying to mitigate some [...]
August 29 was my last day as a transcriptionist. No more trying to figure out what the endocrinologist with the West African/French/Jamaican accent is saying 20 feet away from the microphone. No more bleeding eardrums when someone decides to clear their throat right in front of the microphone while I’ve got the volume turned up [...]
Coincidentally, the recording of Arjuna’s Dilemma by Doug Cuomo that I did back in 2005 has finally been released by Innova onto CD (and available through iTunes and eMusic). It REALLY turned out well. I urge you all to buy a copy, not because I’m on it (okay, well, partially because I’m on it), but [...]
So for the last month I’ve been working on a project with The Crossing: the first recording for this fledgling group, and hopefully a sign of things to come.
The piece is Kile Smith’s Vespers, written for The Crossing (a new music choir) and Piffaro (a Renaissance wind band), and I can’t wait until the CD [...]
Last night I sang the role of Alice in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. No, it wasn’t at any opera house you might have heard of; it was a performance of the opera in its entirety at a little Italian restaurant in South Philly called the High Note Cafe.
I’d never done anything like this in my [...]