Reviews Coming Up!
I am currently reading three books on the subject of singing (and related), which I wish to review for this blog soon. They are (in the order of in which reading I am furthest ahead)   Marketing For Singers by Mark J. Stoddard The Third Line: The Singer As Interpreter by Daniel Helfgot An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias by Martial Singher As soon as I finish a book I will post a review of it here.

Dances Of Yesteryear
   

Another Musical Anecdote
I used to volunteer at a local symphony orchestra in Guayaquil doing layout for the concert programs. One month the conductor's notes on Dvorak’s "The Noonday Witch" were nowhere to be found. I asked the secretary "Alberto, have you seen 'The Noonday Witch'?" Alberto smiled and pointed across the room. At his wife, the receptionist

VAS anecdote, Last Year
I was participating at the Vocal Arts Symposium last summer in Colorado Springs. It was raining and I saw a fellow singer running out of the cafeteria to rehearsal and I called out  "Hey! You can stand under my umbrella." She took shelter under it and then shot back "Ella-ella eh! eh! eh!

Another Audition Experience
  Yesterday I had another audition, but this one was a bit on the unusual side.  I contacted the conductor of a local performance ensemble because I was interested in performing the tenor solo in a concert that was to be performed in the area within the next few months. I sent the conductor an email: “My name is Nourrit’s Number and I am a tenor currently studying with Martile Rowland. I learned of the upcoming X performance through  [Local classical music/opera newsletter] and I would like to express my interest in auditioning for the tenor soloist. I would like to inquire