Scene from today's voice lesson with the amazing ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sarcasma (whom you can hear, incidentally, in this weekend's Essential Opera performance of Massenet's Chérubin. I highly recommend EO based on their last performance.):
We are working on "Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?" which is one of Copland's settings of Dickenson. (Here's someone very competent singing it.) Sarcasma has been very patient while I grapple with the fact that Copland expected singers to just kind of pull notes out of chords that do not contain those notes and it's much more difficult than learning something by Mozart, darnit.
Sarcasma: Now, because this is you, I don't have to worry about saying things like "What are these words about?"
Me: Yeah. Patriarchy.
Sarcasma: *Sputter.* Yes. Okay, maybe I do have to worry.
There ensued a fruitful discussion of the text and the interpretation thereof, during which we agreed that it really is about the patriarchy. So that is how I will sing it.
Now, of course, I want to find more patriarchy-blaming soprano repertoire. Suggestions?
sarcasma (whom you can hear, incidentally, in this weekend's Essential Opera performance of Massenet's Chérubin. I highly recommend EO based on their last performance.):We are working on "Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?" which is one of Copland's settings of Dickenson. (Here's someone very competent singing it.) Sarcasma has been very patient while I grapple with the fact that Copland expected singers to just kind of pull notes out of chords that do not contain those notes and it's much more difficult than learning something by Mozart, darnit.
Sarcasma: Now, because this is you, I don't have to worry about saying things like "What are these words about?"
Me: Yeah. Patriarchy.
Sarcasma: *Sputter.* Yes. Okay, maybe I do have to worry.
There ensued a fruitful discussion of the text and the interpretation thereof, during which we agreed that it really is about the patriarchy. So that is how I will sing it.
Now, of course, I want to find more patriarchy-blaming soprano repertoire. Suggestions?
