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Woo hoo! Yay me! I just finished editing two clips of my singing, when I did the Mozart Litany. They actually sound reasonably professionally edited and worthy to go up on my website. Quelle surprise!
Sancta trinitas, miserere nobis...
Apr. 12th, 2007 04:31 pmI resisted going all digital for a very long time, because I have such a big collection of audio cassette tapes. It would cost me at least a thousand dollars to buy CDs of ALL the shows I have on tape, and of course I have stuff on tape for which there is no CD. Then I got the iPod, and wistfully mentioned something about transferring it all to digital. Jason said "actually there is such software--you could definitely re-format them to .mp3." I'm all "Woo hoo!" He sent me the link to a Better Living Through Technogeekery site, where a guy explains exactly how to accomplish this with minimal expense (software is free, just have to get a stereo cable which is around $5). I download the software and voila!
So for the past week or so I've been working on this project--I decided to start with my personal tapes of concerts and shows in which I performed. A few days ago I finished transferring and editing (the side of the cassette tapes is read as one long sound file by the software, which you must then chop up into individual sound files, which you then export as .mp3s) a concert I did with the Lost Colony Choir back in the summer of '91. We performed Mozart's Litany in B-flat major and I was the soprano soloist. It's really kind of cool listening to this. I LOVED that work (Mozart clearly had a thing for soprani--she gets by far the most stuff in the piece, two full soli plus a number of other lines in the choral numbers and duets. The poor bass soloist gets only 1 or 2 lines!). Most of my early training was in sacred music--I sang in my church choir for years and years, starting at age 7. We had a very strong program, and I still love singing in that pure, clean style. The Mozart Litany is sacred music--basically addressing God and Christ with different names and repeating "miserere nobis" (have mercy on us). The whole piece is written around that, and it's just incredible how many different moods the music evokes--joy, dread, yearning...It's just a great piece and I loved singing it. I would love to do it again.
So for the past week or so I've been working on this project--I decided to start with my personal tapes of concerts and shows in which I performed. A few days ago I finished transferring and editing (the side of the cassette tapes is read as one long sound file by the software, which you must then chop up into individual sound files, which you then export as .mp3s) a concert I did with the Lost Colony Choir back in the summer of '91. We performed Mozart's Litany in B-flat major and I was the soprano soloist. It's really kind of cool listening to this. I LOVED that work (Mozart clearly had a thing for soprani--she gets by far the most stuff in the piece, two full soli plus a number of other lines in the choral numbers and duets. The poor bass soloist gets only 1 or 2 lines!). Most of my early training was in sacred music--I sang in my church choir for years and years, starting at age 7. We had a very strong program, and I still love singing in that pure, clean style. The Mozart Litany is sacred music--basically addressing God and Christ with different names and repeating "miserere nobis" (have mercy on us). The whole piece is written around that, and it's just incredible how many different moods the music evokes--joy, dread, yearning...It's just a great piece and I loved singing it. I would love to do it again.
