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[freyakitten]

Also, I have started singing lessons again. Dad has been bugging me to take singing lessons ever since I graduated from high school and the lessons he'd arranged through them finished. He hasn't bugged me for the last few months, so look what I did! Singing lessons on Fridays. Contemporary music, things I like listening to, not opera and lyrics that make me want to puke with their soppyness, such as I put up with all through high school because I sight read, learn music easily, and kept learning the singing teacher out of repertoire. So, I had my first lesson last Friday. I think I'll get along with this teacher - the main thing I was worried about was all the exercises my previous teachers tried to make me do that seemed designed to take my white voice and turn it into a vibrato-crazed clone-voice. She doesn't do those, and would like to expand what I can do into the realm of what she can do, which involves sounding good with modern music and not choir-boy perfect which is what takes very little effort now.

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[penguin2.livejournal.com]

My RL friend neko_seraph has been telling me about the music lessons she had at school - typical ones for people born after 1980, from what I've been able to gather. I think I'll be scarred for life. How DARE they deconstruct rock and pop songs and batter them to death in soulless robotic by-the-numbers smeggery? Aiiieeee! That is sooo not what this sort of music is or ever will be about! Grrr arrgh.

OTOH I made her corpse laughing when her description gave me a sudden image which I shared with her: a music class of boy sopranos singing Black Sabbath's Paranoid. A cappella, of course...

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

At one point I got the theme to 'Friends' in four parts (one of the singing groups, not one of the choirs, nor the singing classes). That one has been files with quite a few others in the 'I have the music but I'll not sing it until I can do so without wincing'.

The ones I got from my singing teacher that go in that file are all things like 'One Hand, One Heart' and the opera thingy about the plane tree - the melody, not the recitative, is quite famous, but I can never remember what the damn thing is called. I hated it. That, and endless listening to other people sing 'The Rose' and similar popular pieces that got bashed to death in the practice rooms.

We rarely did modern music that wasn't in a musical, for some reason. Probably because the music was cheaper to buy in a batch.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Apparently you're lucky. One fo the pieces my friend had to suffer through was a Stevie Wonder song. She's never heard the original and thus only knew it as a dreary faux-cheerful plink-a-plunk horror inflicted on piano by her music teacher. Erk.

As for The Rose, count your blessings - I was a technical advisor on the sodding wretched abomination of a film. Another thing that scarred me for life :P

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Hang on, you made her corpse laughing? Neko_seraph, are you OK? Not corpsed?

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Er um you don't use corpse as a verb here? My bad - must be an Oirish thing :-)

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Good to hear from you again.

I will be looking into getting singing lessons this summer, but if the teacher I'm considering doesn't open a section, it's not going to happen... We'll see.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the quiet-ness of my communications - I just got tired and busy, and when that happens emails and new logs are the first thing to go. Ringing people up to talk would be the first, if I actually did it in the first place.

I still have to post about the fashions I saw on New Years' Eve. Tight vinyl pants should never be loose around the butt region, nor should there ever be a wallet in that saggy back pocket, it makes the male in question look like he's wearing a g-string nappy...

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

If you are interested, The Idea of North should be doing one of their acapella workshops the next time they are in town (which they promise me will be sometime soon). If you sing (and are interested in acapella) these are apparently well worth going to. I'll let you know if/when their doing one. For those who have never seen them they are worth seeing live (especially as the only one of their humorous songs they have ever released was Singin' Acapella). Not that they would have the nerve to, say, play The Muppet's Theme on mock-kazoo for a lunchtime concert at the Elder Conservatorium of Music ... must have been some other acapella group that looked very familiar.

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Speak of the devil: TBC Saturday 19th March PUBLIC VOCAL WORKSHOP. Waiting on confirmation. details to come.