Posted on 03/08/2013 5:56:31 PM PST by AZamericonnie
Music Bumps For All The Songs In he Canteen.
Howdy, ((((Sis))))
So sorry that you have been sick! That sounds like a miserable virus. Had one like it when we lived in Germany...the London Flu they called it then. Hope you get your full strength back soon!
Congrats on nailing that job! This will be so much better for you! WOOOHOOO!!!
Yes, me too.
Up till that moment in time, I had wanted to be either an astronaut or an animation artist for Disney!
RIP Alvin Lee.
45 Years ago I saw him MANY times at the Boston Tea Party.
Now I am in a different kind of tea party.
I’ll be happy to see you back. I’m glad it all worked out for you. See you next weekend.
I don’t know if you get HBO, but they broadcast a master class at Julliard with Renee Fleming and four up-and-coming young singers. It’s wonderful.
I saw it!
It was terrific.
And Renee’s advice to the young vocalists was very similar to what went through my head as I listened to them sing.
That was SO validating to me...I felt honored!
Thanks for the tip. I will probably watch it again.
When the young tenor sang “It Ain’t Necessarily So”, I flashed back to a concert at Woodland Hills Park in L.A. in 1996. The opera program at USC put on a show with their young singers with full orchestra. One young Korean sang that Gershwin number. Because that number requires a chorus and there was none available, he turned the audience into a chorus and rehearsed us in the call-and-response and scat singing. You have to know your hoodie-ah-da-wa-da from your scatty-wah. I hadn’t had that much fun in years.
Woohoo!!! A new and better suited job for you!!! ((HUGS))
When Renee told him to “Expand his rib cage” I had to laugh out loud because that is the FIRST thing I teach my kids, before I even let them sing a note.
But I do EVERY exercise WITH the kids. I never make them do anything I don’t do myself.
I have a cool exercise where they have to hold a sheet of paper against a window using JUST their breath.
Her advice to the girl to “Lighten up” on the Jewel Song was the same thing I thought too. The story and lyrics of Marguerite finding the box of jewels in her garden requires playful innocence, a sense of wonder, a bit of coquettishness, and the impending omen of innocence about to be lost.
The student declaiming the song as if she were the Queen of the Night was jarring.
The Beauty of this documentary is that as soon as Renee gives her Marvelous advice, the students improve exponentially!
Tonight on PBS, they are doing “BROADWAY the American Musical” . It is also excellent (except for the fundraising!)
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