December 2009
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symphonyno2ineminor:
[Mahler] Symphonies
Symphony No. 1, “Titanic,” for orchestra with contrabass obbligato and Klezmer Band, a bagel and some lox. Oh, and a pickle maybe.
Symphony No. 2, “Reanimation,” for orchestra, choir, 3–5 adjacent churches, really big organ, undead vocal soloists, trumpetist who shows up late for the gig and has to play off-stage and two woolly mammoths flanking the...
Blog 12.21.09 - If you were wondering...
I’m a Count Basie kind of girl. I really am…
I just love Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes, and H. Marion Crawford as Watson. Rathbone & Bruce are still my favorites… I think! Howard / Crawford lend such a sense of humor to the characters! :) Anyway, I found a DVD set of the 50s TV series and I’ve been wasting my time watching it…
I love the new Kurzweil PC3x my...
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Blog 12.12.09
(Frank & Dean singing “Marshmallow World”) Frank Sinatra would have been 94 today.
So! It’s been/going to be a busy weekend…!
Yesterday was my “jury”- no, not jury duty! But my final singing exam for my official K-State Voice Lessons. I wasn’t really impressed with how well I did… but this morning when I saw Dr. Pittman he told me I...
Blog 12.6.09
Well, Grandma got after me for not posting more often… so I guess I can spare a few moments to prattle about what I’ve been up to lately!
School
For those of you that don’t know, I enrolled at K-State this semester for a whopping two classes. “Opera Workshop” and voice lessons. In OpShop, instead of performing a full-length opera, the entire group of enrolled...
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