This month is a heavy schedule. I'll be rehearsing Zoltan Kodaly's Missa Brevis and (if we get the parts on time) Joji Yuasa's Cosmic Solitude with the Stanford Symphonic Chorus. Rehearsals also start for the chorus in West Bay Opera's Palo Alto premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. I'm attending a January 17th San Francisco Symphony concert with the program of Michael Tilson Thomas' Street Song for Symphonic Brass, Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Garrick Ohlsson is the piano soloist, and Michael Tilson Thomas conducts. Voice lessons continue. I'm working on The Crucifixion by Samuel Barber/Howard Mumford Jones, Stride la Vampa from the opera Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi / Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano (my voice teacher is an optimist), and the delightful Song With the Violins by John Bucchino.
So quite the mash-up. I'm singing Latin, Italian, English and maybe German. I've got music spanning two centuries - Orfeo, which premiered in Vienna in 1794 to Cosmic Solitude, written in 1997. I've got a mass, a crucifixion, a witch burning, someone with severe relationship anxiety and a heavily modified Greek myth about a musician's journey to the underworld to retrieve his wife. Singing isn't one of your relaxing hobbies.
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