Yay!

[textualdeviance]

How lovely to wake up and see that I got the solo I auditioned for. Both of them, actually, in a way! I'm doing two sections of the first, and the entirety of the second, on alternating concert nights. Yay! I absolutely adore Rutter, so I'm really tickled about that.

It's been so long since I've done any serious singing (almost two years), and it feels really good to get back to it.

I'm starting to think that, once I've gotten my degree and have a freelance or stringer job somewhere (probably after an internship) that I'll eventually just settle into a nice little pattern of working about 3/4 time doing articles, and then about 1/4 time doing some performing here and there. I just don't think I could ever completely give up performing. It's been in my blood since I was a wee thing. Besides, if my intent is to cover entertainment, It's wise for me to keep up my own activities in that area. I'll probably make less money than if I were doing more writing, but dammit, this is what I started out doing, and it's only through unfortunate circumstance that I'm not doing it professionally. I think it's kind of like journalism is where my head is, but performing is where my heart is. I can't neglect either of them.

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[davebooth.livejournal.com]

Congrats :)

Know how you feel - you'd never guess it to hear me now but I used to be a pretty damn good treble soloist before my voice cracked - Never in the Aled Jones league or anything like that but certainly good enough to get invites from the better amateur choirs in that part of the UK...

If I really hammered on it I could probably train myself into a fairly decent baritone/bass range and I know I can still remember *how* to produce decent tone but these days I dont perform anything other than the occasional folkie thing so there hasnt seemed to be any point.

selkie_b and I both love listening to shape-note work and we just discovered there is a group that sings locally. If they wouldnt object to a couple of VERY pagan types turning up I might just get the incentive I need to get back into training.... on the other hand theres the lack of time and the excess of apathy to deal with...