Lea Ann wrote: <<I tell you guys I am thinking that this recital isn't going to happen for me...I have a month and a half, I have no music at all. So at the moment I have nothing...and I will be learning this stuff by myself for at least two weeks out of that month and a half because my teacher is going to take two weeks off to have her baby. Perhpas I should just tell her I had better wait til next year.>>
Frankly, when I read your first message - you're looking for new music AND your teacher will be unavailable to you - I was thinking: what is the urgency about doing this recital?
For myself, while I learn music very quickly, it takes me a long time to get it sounding really good in my voice. It takes even longer to make the music emotionally my own, to arrive at the stage where I feel it's ready to present to an audience.
So, unless this recital is some kind of academic requirement you can't postpone, I would recommend that you seriously consider not doing it in a month and a half (beginning of May?), but postpone it until you are comfortable performing the repertoire you want to present.
Peggy
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