> > The vocal music scene here is peculiar. Lots of opportunity, but also an
> > excessive amount of "cliquishness". One sees the same two dozen or so
> > singers in every opera and operetta at the local level in the
> > D.C./Baltimore area. Also, I've also discovered that while D.C. seems
> > VERY open to hiring Baltimore singers, the Baltimore scene is much more
> > closed and parochial. The result is that we in D.C. have to compete with
> > both D.C. and Baltimore singers, but Baltimore opera companies aren't
> > similarly open.
> >
> > The oratorio scene here is similarly insular and "incestuous". It's
> > impossible to even get many conductors around here to listen to you in
> > audition. I think they find a lot of their singers through university
> > programs with which they are connected, or by word of mouth.
> > ,,,,,
>
> > If you want to be a choral singer, on the other hand, the opportunities
> > are vast. Unless you want to be paid.
> >
>sounds like Boston!
>merry
And like New Orleans, Kansas City, St. Louis.... I guess it's symptomatic
of just about every city large enough to have a music scene at all, except,
of course, New York.
Leslie
Leslie Jones, D.M.A.; Contralto
Dept. of Music, Southeast MO State Univ.
LJones@s... - (573) 651-2339
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