Hey tumblr-folk! I'm Cassie, 21, preparing for my senior year at VCU for vocal performance. i dream of being on the opera stages of the world... or any opera stage will do. this is a place for my musical madness, be it rants, pictures, quotes, personal thoughts, epiphanies or worries, and even my attempt of musical fridays. i try to post a recording of me singing/playing any song on a friday, i don't always get to it, but i try. i do (by the way) take requests, and my ask box is always open.
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Guess who has a copy of “vois sous l’archet frémissant”
Guess!
I am so excited! I contacted Ms. Day and she actually recognized it. Thought it wasn’t good for me because it isn’t a good audition aria, that most judges think it is too long and/or too slow.
But it’s gorgeous, if anything, I’ll ask Mrs. G. If I can add it to my senior recital rep! I just have to sing it. It’s in my range, only a high A once, the second to last note. I can work through that… If I stay healthy. And sing smart.
Eeeeeeeeee, even though she thought I shouldn’t learn it, she still scanned it and sent it to me! She is amazing!
So i’m at Castleton for the music festival up here. i’m excited, i’m interning as an artist administrative person, but it’s really fun. all of the other interns are great, currently we’re the only ones on the farm, but within a week the orchestra is going to show up, then the artists, and eventually the C.A.T.S. (Castleton Artist Training Seminar. the students for the teaching seminar here, i have a friend who’s going to be in it!), and i heard the other day that the interns get to sit in on the classes, if we have time. So i’m excited about that as well.
but, there is hardly internet, and it will get worse when all of the other people arrive, so i am warning you that there will be little or no activity for the next two months. tumblr kills internet quickly. but yeah.
also, if anyone wants to help me keep the ariaoftheday tumblr running for the next two months while i’m unable to find arias and such, please let me know!
i just have to bring this aria back onto tumblr. so very very beautiful.
also, susanne mentzer.
i want to sing this so much, why is it so hard to find a score of it!?!?!?!? unless i buy the whole opera score with 5 acts and such… ugh. maybe ask around the department…
I can’t stand Natalie Dessay. Her voice is colourless, her interpretations are uninspired, and her acting is rubbish.
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not alone! sorry. it’s not that i can’t stand her, but i so do not like her voice, watching videos of her singing makes me feel uncomfortable and awkward for her. so, totally agree, i am so glad i am not alone in this!
I’m ending my tribute to baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with this sublime version of Strauss’s ‘Morgen’ with pianist Wolfgang Sawallish at the piano, 1974.
It’s been so beautiful to see the outpouring of love for DFD; your comments on my posts and throughout tumblr just show how wholly affecting a great artist is, and how he affected all of us.
Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Once again, I shall remind you all about how much I love his hair.
What makes Fischer-Dieskau such a significant artist, especially when it comes to lieder, is just the way he throws himself completely into the music. You have the sense that he’s examined it from every possible angle and he’s chosen this way to go with it. The shading and the sensitivity with which he works with words, not only their meaning but the way he caresses their phonemes, is quite remarkable.
— Critic and author Tim Page on baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who died this morning at 86.
(via thisdeepdream)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings “O wüsstest du” from Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, accompanied by Gerald Moore
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau passed away today.
opera stars teaching singers how to sing.
