To Sleep, Perchance to Finally Rest the Voice.

Well I managed to be a few days late again, but in comparison its still tons better than I did last semester. Anyways this week felt kind of crazy with the first day of tour and all. When it came to practice time I thought things went pretty well, it was all mostly on my own since Phil asked for for rehearsal time to practice with someone else, and because of tour I missed my voice lesson. A lot of my practice time has been spent making sure I have Non e ver memorized for next Tuesday on recital. Speaking of Tuesday, next week is going to be crazy! Monday I have Chorale then the Choir concert, then Tuesday I am singing on recital and I will have our band concert, to follow that on Wednesday we have our second day of tour, and then Thursday I have my voice lesson. Wow I am really looking forward to having spring break next week just so I can at least rest my voice and try and get some more memorization done. But I can do this all as long as I am doing it all in the name of Jesus Christ!

Beware the Deadlines of March.

Well In a moment of retrospect I came to realize that I had not actually done a blog for last week, but oh well, I will just do my best to sum up the last two weeks in this one. When it comes to practice I wasn't extremely satisfied with how my practice went, but I was glad that I was able to get some translations/ IPA written in some of my music. I had hoped to to get some good practice in this last Sunday but I ended up feeling really sick all day and just lying around sleeping all day, talk about frustrating. Anyways, I digress, on the broader scheme of things I really do feel like I am a lot more prepared this semester than I have been In the past, as I look towards the spring break coming up and the goal to have some pieces memorized I feel like this could be the closet I come to having that goal reached at that time. I just need to buckle down this next week and really focus on getting some good time in practicing and focusing on my diction in my pieces and I think things will slowly work to where they need to be.

To God be the glory!

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to sing for God, not for mankind.

Its seems as though another week has come and past, these weeks seem to fly by faster and faster every semester. I thought this week went really good, I had some good practice, I thought singing in studio went really good, and I felt like we made some good ground in my lesson to improve my understanding of head/jaw position. I feel like Non e ver is going well and I can really spend time working on the character of the piece and in time I know memorization will be easy with more practice. I have also spent some time on my two Charles pieces. My Lady Walks in Loveliness along with And So,Goodbye just need some practice of singing through the notes to the point where I can hear the melody without second guessing myself and also just focus especially on diphthongs in those pieces. Other than that I am begging to work on Hostias and making sure I use a lot of wide open vowels and focus on consonants. And on the side of those I will begin looking at my French piece Le Charme and getting down the diction (the usefulness of taking diction is already showing). In sense of all things I really feel good about this semester, and its not because I am working a whole lot harder than I have before, its because I can use my time as great worship and offer my music up to God.