Re: Chrysalis
I love the different perspective. I felt that claustrophobic feelings that the butterfly might have endured.
View ArticleRe: Piquancy
I was really into this, thinking soul mates meet at last. Lol. Excellent way of hooking and surprising.
View ArticleRe: Piquancy
You're right...this is nothing like what I had in mind, but I loved it! What a creative interpretation. Excellent job!
View ArticleRe: Kick My Ass
I love that he didn't do what she expected. That she started off angry and ended up feeling safe.
View ArticleRe: Elemental
I am a huge fan of fantasy writing and enjoy when I read a story with magic in it I have never seen before. This would be a great premise for a book - the story of the child and how it defeats the...
View ArticleRe: What’s My Line? 10 Steps to Memorizing Your Music
WONDERFUL! THANK YOU for this valuable info! I recently sang in FALSTAFF as well, and I used most of these techniques. And it looks like we referred to the same recording as well (Abbado conducting,...
View ArticleRe: What’s My Line? 10 Steps to Memorizing Your Music
LOVE THIS! I'm printing it out and putting it in my practice space. Karina
View ArticleRe: What’s My Line? 10 Steps to Memorizing Your Music
I don't know how much this helps singers, but for instrumentalists, it's good to carry your music around with it, and at odd intervals, pull it out, look at it, while "playing" the music into your...
View ArticleRe: What’s My Line? 10 Steps to Memorizing Your Music
Two more ideas that work well for me: 1: Do score study while exercising on a treadmill or bike. Use the recording and have the score in front of you. There's something about the physical movement that...
View ArticleRe: Pinch Hitter
Dearest Maren,This is a beautiful piece. I agree with you wholeheartedly that volunteer choral singers are a uniformly friendly lot! I also love "Nigra Sum." I am one of the SATBQ singers who was...
View ArticleRe: Forget About Walking Softly; Just Carry A Big Stick
From the Hiking Dad . . . odd how people remember things so differently! First of all, on that Tuolumne trip you were 13, not 17. Then, I don't remember being upset at your not wanting to go all the...
View ArticleRe: Merry Meet
Was in the audience & sang along. (Alto-harmonized some of the higher bits, though.) Don't know if we were sitting among vendor regulars, rennfaire regulars, or SCA types, but a LOT of folks around...
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