Liz wrote:
>I'm still waiting to hear from a couple of places. There's hope. I hope. >But I've been laid low with a nasty summer cold for the past two days, and I >need a bit of reassurance. Pweeze?
Oh, Liz. It's the dreaded dry spell. It happens to all of us. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has oodles of sympathy and empathy and "been-there-done-that-boy-does-it-stink" to share. Don't despair. The world is always changing, and it'll come back around to busy Liz with tons of fulfilling performing jobs!
As for the unpaid chorus gigs -- with companies that you have gotten solo work with before or have reason to believe you could get solo work in the future, I personally would choose not to confuse the issue by accepting a chorus assignment.
UNLESS:
* it's an ensemble that has small solos (a la Sweeney) and you can negotiate in advance to do some of those.
* you love the music and really want to sing it.
* you love the director, choreographer, or conductor and really want to work with him/her.
What to do with your free time: develop a recital program and shop it around to various presenting organizations, get some friends together and put on an opera with piano, work up a monologue and audition for a play, work with your coach on a new role, make a new audition tape and send it around to people you've been wanting to audition for but didn't have the time because you were doing shows...
And on and on...
And of course the personal care that you always have to do: read books that inspire you, practice yoga, eat fresh strawberries, meditate, take walks near water with someone you adore, take an afternoon off and go to the aquarium, see a minor league ballgame, pet your kitties while sipping tea and reading poetry...
You'll be fine! : )
Naomi
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