Performance Alert! Freude Freude!
11/5/2008
Kind hearts and gentles all, Oh, the tide of great music that passes over my head like a wave, threatening to drown me!! The glorious helplessness of it all! I'm mid-season, which means booked solid, running ragged, exhausted, triumphant, and having the time of my life. All within the space of several minutes. Bring on the scores, the rehearsal schedules, the soothing herbal tea; it must be November!
9/11/2008
My husband and I are the proud owners of four cats and one of them is rapidly-growing-kitten, a monster of invasive orange greatness with fluff to spare and an enormous bushy tail to beat the band, and a deeply-held conviction that, whoever you are and whatever you are doing, surely it would be improved if he sat upon it or jumped on you. He is an equal-opportunity pouncer, and the dialogue betwixt him and the older cats goes somewhat thusly:
9/3/2008
Kind hearts and gentle people, I emerge from the waters of Baroque immersion much the better for my ducking!!
7/2/2008
Hello, dears!
Concerning Traffic and Green Jelly Beans
6/26/2008
All life experience is material for later dramatic expansion thereupon. I wish to relate lessons re-learned in a recent audition in the form of Pithy If Long-Winded Words of Wisdom, for the enlightenment of posterity and the benefit of my soprano, tenor, and baritone colleagues. Pithy, If Long-Winded, Word of Wisdom #1: