Lazy day.

Lazy summer, really. I haven't spent the summer as I wished (practicing my ass off and saving up for auditions), but I'm attempting not to dwell on that. I had an audition yesterday for a church job downtown, and was successful. Beautiful place, really nice and intelligent choir director. Nice pay, too. Between that and the regular opera chorus paychecks, I will have enough $$ to do at least some young artist program auditions this year. First, though, I need to do headshots and a demo CD.


I have a friend who will do the pictures for cheap, so now I need to focus on the CD. I"ll have to record 5 songs- most places only ask for 2, but there are a few that want 5, so it's better to just prepare for 5. My rep list is still far too heavily in the Italian camp, which will probably force me to have two separate recording sessions. I'll get my best two or three pieces out of the way, and work on my French/German for the second session. For the first CD, I'll definitely have "Pace, pace," and "Vissi d'arte." I'll have to ponder on the third. I need to learn "depuis le jour" and possibly "adieu, notre petite table" for the French portion. German's still up in the air.


For tonight, I'll work on memorizing my words for my upcoming concert next Sunday. Beautiful music- I'm singing Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, and Giulietta. I'm just worried about my voice. Being ill has really screwed with my practicing plans.