did anyone read my friend sharon's comment on the last blog entry? sharon, you are so right on. you shore do gotta way with words, honey. my favorite thing about the blog is reading the comments. my mom replied to an earlier one, by e-mail, and it was a great response. somehow, the blog gives us freedom to be our wisest and most intimate selves. i love what it brings out of people...
more on my week, which has turned out to be amazing...
you know, i care deeply about this performance on friday, and so, to prepare for it, i am going to have a marvelous, restful week and not sing all week. then i'm going to drive to oklahoma, with so much energy, feeling fresh and totally ready to tackle the piece. i will have worked out all week, and will have a clean apartment to come home to as well. i will sing my heart out, wrong notes and all, and no one will be the wiser.
tuesday ~ a day that usually begins by teaching a half-asleep college student at 9 am, who even in her still-crusty eyed stupor, manages to be skeptical of my teaching methods. the day ends 12 teeth-grinding hours later, after a three-hour rehearsal with the kc chorale, which is hard on the body, but i really love it.
however, today's tuesday is more like it! no first patience-trying lesson, teach from 11-4:30. which means i'm sitting on my couch, drinking coffee, making my to-do list and doing laundry. hallelujah!! and no chorale tonight either!!! now THAT'S a schedule i can handle. if i have to do this job, it's gotta to be in small increments, or i'll go postal.
2 comments:
this is wonderful... as you know I took a week "vacation" from singing opera and formal practice last week... and really a week vacation from singing anything but that which my soul was crying out to express through music has been one of the best thing I've done for my artistry and voice all year long really. and when i did sing that aria for the first time in over a week, there was a new freshness and freedom that has never been there before. (of course, as you know, there were other thoughts and emails and prayers and reading going on last week as well which have added to this, but a good old refreshing of the body and soul through rest and the breaking of that grinding routine and schedule is actually one of the best things we can do for ourselves and our voice! :)
that is so awesome, linz!!! i can feel your refreshedness while reading this!!! thank you so much for writing this lovely comment. i really think we need to make some jesus music together...
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