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musicalguy
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Country: United States
State: New York
Metro: Rochester
Gender: Male
Interests: I really like music and theatre. Specifically musical theatre, but I also like non-musicals. I'm a classically trained singer so I love opera too.
Expertise: Um...trying to become an expert in musical theatre.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message me
Member Since:
3/19/2003
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| well folks after a whole lotta time of being on xanga, i have made the decision to retire from this blog. it no longer serves the purpose it initially did for me and for me i associate it with a different part of my life. so as i had hinted earlier in the summer, i am moving blogs. i will continue to write irreverant rants, but those will only be found on my myspace blog. i wont give that url because i assume you know how to work that and most of the people who read the irreverant rants are already on my friend list on myspace. my thought provoking legit updates on what i'm doing with my life will be found at http://musicalguy.blogspot.com
i wish you all the best in your future blogging...oh and before i peace out totally, let me promote another website briefly. some of you may know my old roommate from sophomore year, josh. well he's hella cool and he has a vlog which i think is HILARIOUS! check it out sometime because he has some funny things to say as well as some cool legit points to make http://www.joshleo.com
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| i have reached a state of...i don't know-ness. it's rainy out, i'm in my office with a bunch of papers and stuff piling up, but i'm so desensitized to it i'm not even pissed, angry, irate or annoyed by it. i just sigh and amuse myself by stalking people on myspace and letting them pile up some more. every now and then i make a dent into the work, but the issue is a lot of it feels like unneccessary busy work. oh well, nothing i can do.
high point of the week thus far: getting the new justin timberlake cd. yes, i know i'm not a 13 year old girl and i should be far less excited about this cd than i am, but that's just a testament as to how unamusing my life is at this present juncture (and how hot justin timberlake is)
last night i talked to jane, we were laughing about how we have turned into total recluses. i now have a subscription to blockbuster online and she has a subscription to netflix. all we do is sit around watching movies or crap television every night. although i will say last night's highlight for me was dancing with the stars. joey lawrence and mario lopez...mmmmmhmmmm, that's all i have to say about that! tonight is wednesday, no good reality tv or contest shows again until thursday night's celebrity duets...looks like it's another blockbuster night.
wow this was a BORING entry. sorry i don't have any good gossip or amusing stories.
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| "there are no words i can say
can't go back to how it used to be
you gotta feel it to heal it
all that we can do to make a change
is love the pain away..."
~billy porter
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| weirdest thing ever. so a few years ago i was a finalist in the opera GR vocal competition and when i met with the judges afterward david lockington (GR's orchestra conductor) came up to me and said "i don't think you're a bass-baritone. you're very good but you need to take some time to figure out who and what you are." at the time i thought, ok you're crazy, you're not a singer so whatever! then another one of the judges who happened to be a mezzo-soprano said almost the same thing to me and i was totally confused. why would everyone at calvin tell me i'm a bass-baritone and continue to have me train in that manner if i wasn't. when i was working on "forum" something very strange happened. i had never sustained anything above E for an extended period of time that sounded good. well in the two months i had before forum opened, i worked my ass off and was ridiculously anal about my vocal health and i managed to end up sustaining that F# at the end of "bring me my bride" every night for those 8 bars or whatever eternity that was. it was odd to me that i could never do it before but for some odd reason i could.
well as i've mentioned before i've been taking lessons with a new guy. he's a DM candidate at eastman and he's AWESOME. for a brief moment, let me go on a tirade about studying music in a collegiate setting. the problem with the music program at colleges across america is they place an emphasis on learning songs. they tell you you have to learn your 2 italian arias, 2 german lieder and 2 french chanson and 2 english pieces each semester and then you go to a jury where it's a crap shoot of what they're gonna make you sing (calvin joined the rest of the music world a few years ago by doing that at juries now). so with all that emphasis on learning new music for your jury and still making sure you pass bio 115 and those ever so impossible religion classes you find your practice time is just plunking notes and making sure you can sing them as opposed to actually developing good technique. what i like about working with louima is that i'm on my own time and i don't have to worry about a freaking jury to learn some stupid songs for. i've been with him for a little over a month now and i can say he's the best thing that has happened to my voice. ever since my vocal injuries last year my voice has been hit or miss, but since i've been studying with him my voice is a lot clearer sounding, a lot less weight and thickness to it. it's GREAT! we've spent a lot of time dealing with tongue placement for resonance purposes and other crap like that and somehow in the process my lower register does not want to work, but strangely enough i've consistently hit high A's at my last 3 lessons with ease. he said "what happened to the bass baritone?" i said "i don't know!". he said, "i don't know where your voice is going, but the timbre i'm hearing sounds like a tenor, but you may just end up being a high baritone. being a bass-baritone was the only thing you could have been the way you were singing. you were putting too much effort into it and covering your sound too much and then using your nasal cavity to manipulate your high notes which was going to put a limit on you." so imagine me freaking out now as i finally realize i may never play joe in showboat as low G becomes increasingly harder for me to sing. i may never play porgy...i'm changing character type. baritenor isn't exactly a death sentence though. i will say i'm glad it opens different doors now even though it closes some. maybe i'll finally be able to sing raoul in phantom..maybe i'll be able to do sportin' life in porgy and bess...i was just getting used to my type and now i have to rework it. i guess it's alright though, i just need the time to work it out. ANYWAY i have fires galore i have to put out at the office today now that the "boss" is back so peace out ya'll!
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| 1. there's something that's been driving me nuts every time i listen to the color purple cast recording. on track 5 (that fine mister) at the beginning the church ladies phonate something right before they start singing that i have no freaking clue what they're saying. if anyone can tell me what the heck they're saying i would greatly appreciate it.
2. no one has gotten back to me about the light in the piazza on pbs. i KNOW one of you theatre queens had to have taped it or you know someone who taped it. please let me know if you have it so i can get a copy of it.
3. i found out i probably won't be doing a christmas carol due to regional theatre rules of having a certain percentage equity vs. non equity performers. because its a show with children there will probably be no non-union adults in the show as most of the children will be non-union. however there is a chance i may still be considered for the staged reading in april as well as urinetown in may
4. the american theatre wing is the most fantastic thing ever. i cannot promote them enough. if you love theatre go to itunes and download the downstage center audio podcasts as well as the video podcasts of their "working in the theatre seminars". don't have itunes or an ipod? go to www.americantheatrewing.org and you can watch and listen right there on their website. seriously folks, they're awesome programs and listening to downstage center makes my lunch hour that much happier every day and i feel like i've learned something at the end of the day. with that said, i'm off to continue working, the boss returns today...EEK!
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