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amazon_syren) wrote2011-07-11 07:17 pm
amazon_syren) wrote2011-07-11 07:17 pm
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Music Music Music!
Okay.
So we went to London (Ontario) for my cousin's wedding, this weekend. (Last weekend, now, I guess, it being Monday).
I sang at the wedding.
Two things to report:
1) Having seen the sheet music, I now know that the song ("You Raise Me Up" - one of Josh Groban's power ballads) has a two-octave range that encompasses 100% of the performance range I had 10 years ago when I was at the top of my game.
AND
2) I've still got it.
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
The technique is a little rusty. But only a little. I can still hit a high B-flat without squawking, croaking, squeaking, straining, or otherwise making a horrible noise instead of a note come out of my body.
I am still the singer I was. Holy crap, that is such a fucking relief!
Now, granted, I don't know how well I'd do with, say, Quando M'en Vo or the (lower) part of Maleka in The Flower Duet from Lakme (and, yes, I do like Anna Netrebko, as it happens).
But I know I've got the notes. And enough technique to be able to do those pieces with a little bit of work and refreshing.
Ghost video-taped my performance (during the signing of the documents) at the wedding, and she just played it. Seriously. I thought someone had started playing something across the street, and I wanted to know which opera it was from (because, apparently, my enunciation is still crap). I totally didn't recognize myself for a couple of seconds.
Ohgodsohgodsohgods. I do not suck! YAY! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
AND we got a bottle of wine as a thank-you gift. Huzzah! :-D
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
So we went to London (Ontario) for my cousin's wedding, this weekend. (Last weekend, now, I guess, it being Monday).
I sang at the wedding.
Two things to report:
1) Having seen the sheet music, I now know that the song ("You Raise Me Up" - one of Josh Groban's power ballads) has a two-octave range that encompasses 100% of the performance range I had 10 years ago when I was at the top of my game.
AND
2) I've still got it.
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
The technique is a little rusty. But only a little. I can still hit a high B-flat without squawking, croaking, squeaking, straining, or otherwise making a horrible noise instead of a note come out of my body.
I am still the singer I was. Holy crap, that is such a fucking relief!
Now, granted, I don't know how well I'd do with, say, Quando M'en Vo or the (lower) part of Maleka in The Flower Duet from Lakme (and, yes, I do like Anna Netrebko, as it happens).
But I know I've got the notes. And enough technique to be able to do those pieces with a little bit of work and refreshing.
Ghost video-taped my performance (during the signing of the documents) at the wedding, and she just played it. Seriously. I thought someone had started playing something across the street, and I wanted to know which opera it was from (because, apparently, my enunciation is still crap). I totally didn't recognize myself for a couple of seconds.
Ohgodsohgodsohgods. I do not suck! YAY! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
AND we got a bottle of wine as a thank-you gift. Huzzah! :-D
- TTFN,
- Amazon.