Posted in Everyone's a critic, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, music, singing, tagged Everyone's a critic, eye magazine, music, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, review, torture, torture memos on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Eye Magazine:
…The Torture Memos’ strong narrative, decoupled from predictable verse/chorus structures, makes for anxious listening. When phrases like “self defence” or “whatever it takes” are stretched out like taffy, they turn into great hooks — just as evil slogans should. And Kristin Mueller-Heaslip’s fraught, full-throttle operatic vocals are absolutely brilliant, exposing the brutality dulled [...]
Posted in Computer, Life's NOT a bowl of cherries, Ramblings, music, rant, singing, weekend, tagged audition, fail, mope, moping, Ramblings, rant, singing, why? on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After another unsuccessful audition yesterday, I spent all of today doing nothing. Nooooooothing. Nothing.
Literally, this is what I did today.
9 – Got up, made coffee and muffins. Moped.
11 – Recorded and edited my podcast.
12 – Grocery shopping. Grocery store resembles a zoo. Why, if I don’t have a traditional day [...]
Posted in music, singing, tagged apology, cancellation, music, show on November 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Forgot to do this earlier – I said in the podcast that I’d put up a note about whether or not I was doing the lounge show. Unfortunately, while I’m a lot better, I’m still too sick to do a show. Next gig of the same type will be Dec. 20. I will learn Christmas [...]
Posted in Guarded personal writing, Ramblings, music, singing, tagged fever, flu, hmm, music, musing, opera, plan c, Ramblings, rant, sick, singing, swine flu on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
OK, so I don’t know for a *fact* that I have swine flu. I do have something, either a bad cold or a flu of some type, so I’ve spent the past couple days off work, lying around and watching movies. It would be a lot of fun if I weren’t physically so [...]
Posted in Dreams, Weirdness, music, singing, tagged dream, singing, opera, audition, nightmare, singer, Dreams, auditions, gah on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I had an awful dream last night. I had an audition for something – I can’t remember what, but instead of arias they wanted two art songs. OK, I thought, and picked two that were impressive and I sing well, and put the sheet music in a binder.
The audition was in one of [...]
Posted in Guarded personal writing, Life's NOT a bowl of cherries, music, singing, tagged beer, music, singing, taciturnity on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So here I am, on my couch, barely able to type because there are two basset hounds lying on me, about to unwisely discuss sensitive personal and professional matters on the internet.
I blame the combination of fish & chips, beer, and anime.
So I had an audition today. For what I will not [...]
Posted in Adventures, podcast, singing on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seriously, the most ungainly title ever. The 2nd part of my 2007 trip to NYC to compete in the Lotte Lenya International Vocal Competition.
In this episode: I compete, then wander around Manhattan eating things.
Link.
Posted in singing, tagged audition, opera, singing on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For an audition next month, five arias under five minutes each. My notes from trying to figure out what to sing:
- Durch Zartlichkeit
- Caro nome
- Les oiseaux dans la charmille
- Lulu
- Stravinsky is too long. I need something shorter in English: New music?
– I’m not doing any goddamn Britten.
– Why don’t I have [...]
Posted in Adventures, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, music, politics, singing, tagged music, singing, politics, ha!, woot, torture memos, john yoo, torture, evil, the banality of evil, the parkdale revolutionary orchestra on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Torture Memos is more or less done – may require a few tweaks, but that’s it.
Listen to it here.
Or listen to it live tonight!
I hear John Yoo has lawyered up…
Posted in Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, Shamelessness, music, singing, tagged album, music, ooh shiny, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, politics, release, singing, torture memos on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
