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1/4 solo!
We had solo auditions for the Vivaldi Gloria tonight in choir. I did not get the solo I really love, but I was honestly pleased that a friend of mine did, and I felt like at least I sang well enough to have been considered. (I used to get so nervous for auditions that pretty much nothing came out; now I certainly don't sound as good as I do alone in my bedroom, but I'm getting better.)
There is another alto solo, but I didn't even bother to practice that; it's a much trickier and longer one, and the long phrases really need better breath support than I currently have. Turns out no one else had prepared it either, so the director just started asking some of us to get up and give it a try. After a few of us tried it alone he started having us do it in various combinations, and, well, to make a long story short, I ended up as a member of a quartet. Somehow that's a lot less scary than singing it alone, too, so I think I'll actually enjoy it more.
But now you all *really* have to come to the concert! Saturday, December 4, 4pm, at the North-Prospect Church in Porter Square.
There is another alto solo, but I didn't even bother to practice that; it's a much trickier and longer one, and the long phrases really need better breath support than I currently have. Turns out no one else had prepared it either, so the director just started asking some of us to get up and give it a try. After a few of us tried it alone he started having us do it in various combinations, and, well, to make a long story short, I ended up as a member of a quartet. Somehow that's a lot less scary than singing it alone, too, so I think I'll actually enjoy it more.
But now you all *really* have to come to the concert! Saturday, December 4, 4pm, at the North-Prospect Church in Porter Square.
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I so want to come, but we're having a surprise bday party for my mother-in-law that day, complete with staged reading of the medieval mystery play she just finished translating for her dissertation--keep us posted on future concerts!
go you
(I've forgotten most of what I ever knew about singing, but I do remember that I was a third generation alto singer. Though my mother could hit bass notes before the smoking really got to her, so I think she was something other than just an alto...)
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