If you go to enough auditions, or do enough performing, you will start to hear the phrase “make bold choices” over and over. The idea is that in an audition, or on stage, no one wants to see you play it safe. You can’t just sing through the aria without making anything of it. YouContinue reading >>
Who your parents are
It just so happens that I met my love on a train leaving Grand Central Station. Because that train ride was so significant, I don’t think very often of the train ride into the city on that same morning. I was, as I usually am when I go to Manhattan, heading to an audition. IContinue reading >>
Seven pieces I’m working on right now
— 1 — I have been out every night this week at rehearsals for the New England premiere of Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking based on the memoir by Sister Helen Prejean. It is being produced by Boston Opera Collaborative and opens a week from today, Friday March 15. It’s an honor to be aContinue reading >>
7 Quick Takes volume 28
— 1 — Like most of the rest of the country, we have been experiencing Mother Nature’s mood swings this week. It started off frigid, as it was for most of last week (that’s when I start my “why do I live in New England again?” musings). By mid-week it was balmy for just longContinue reading >>
7 Quick Takes volume 27
— 1 — What an eventful week! I celebrated my anniversary with my honey, and my Diagnosiversary, marking a year since I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. I wrote about the day before the test, the day of the test, and what the diagnosis symbolized for me, and now I am TIRED OF FEELING ALLContinue reading >>
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