Almost over!

I have a take home final in music theory [plus a bunch of late homework, but hey, I need the credit] and then a binder for the brass instruction class.

Then I'm done! I put in major time for my music history class [a total of 9.5 hours on Saturday/Monday] so when I took it Tuesday morning I blared through it.

Actually on Monday was my end of semester voice juries. I had to pick an early spot, so I got to school at 845 so I could warm up for the juries which were at 10 am. I sang 'Du Bist Wie Eine Blume' by Robert Schumann and 'O Del Mio Amato Ben' by Stephano Donaudy. After I finished singing, one of the voice faculty, Dr. Deeter, asked me, "Now tell me again why you haven't auditioned for Opera Workshop these past two year?"

Then I ran into her outside with my voice teacher. I commented that I should learn an aria to audition with, and Dr. Deeter said, "Please. You can sing 'Row, row, row your boat' for all I care!" [Which meant, according to another teacher, that I'm already in.]

The only thing is that I don't feel like Classical voice is natural for me. I feel like I force it and it isn't something that just flows from me, like jazz. But when a voice teacher says something like that to me, I can't deny that I must be doing something right.

Opera. Ha! I used to only listen to the overtures [purely instrumental] and never the singing. Someone told me that I might be converted yet.

Hardly. But I'm not adverse to opening another space within me to make room for Classical voice/Opera.

Makin' Mine Music

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