In a message dated 11/30/2000 12:14:35 AM Central Standard Time,
R.L.Frye@w... writes:
<< >Am I the only mezzo-contralto here who is actually singing the contralto
part in the MESSIAH?
No, I've got one coming up as well, and I'll be singing the alto part.
Nobody wants to hear me sing the soprano solos, believe me!>>
Well, that's the way I feel about me singing "I know that my redeemer
liveth," but unfortunately, due to a comedy of errors, I'm doing it!!
Jocelyn wrote:
>Has anybody out there sung, taught or heard anything
great/good/nice/fine/okay lately? If so, I would like to hear about it. >>
I talked about the Jake Heggie songs from his collection, FACES OF LOVE, a
couple of weeks ago. I was privileged enough to hear Frederica von Stade in
concert with the Milwaukee Symphony a few months ago, and she wrote the text
for a cycle called "A Route to the Sky" in this collection - so when I got
her autograph, instead of signing the MSO program, I had her sign my book!!!
I started teaching the last and title song of the cycle to one of my star
mezzo high school students (who job-shadowed me yesterday as a school
assignment) and she was in love with it! I'm also working on the entire
cycle for myself. In addition, I introduced the song "In the beginning" from
the cycle "Of Gods and Cats" to another of the mezzos, who is a HS senior
auditioning for musical theater programs.
Speaking of the latter, she is auditioning for a program at a state
university and she has a FOUR MINUTE time limit - for 2 contrasting
monologues and 2 contrasting songs!!!! What is the point of this??? Better
to have 1 of each and give the student time to show what they've got, or to
have them send in an audio/videotape to weed out the chaff, if they're so
overwhelmed with applicants!!!!
Christine Thomas
Wauwatosa, WI
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"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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