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  • How effing cool is this? NYC is going to introduce a bike share program--you pay an annual fee, pick up a bike at a rack and then you can ride it for up to 45 minutes. I LOVE THIS. I just think this is the coolest idea! For one thing, I would love to bike more but bikes takes up mad room--even with an apartment the size of mine, I want more space. It's also a pain to carry a bike up and down stairs. This is so convenient! And green-friendly, and community-firnedly, and it'll encourage fit habits! When I lived with Ryan and Cami I used to run errands on my bike--maybe I can get back to that.


  • The weather is getting chillier, guys, and you know what that means--apple-picking time! Gothamist had a cool feature on several orchards that seem to be pretty close by, and maybe less expensive--Apple Ridge Orchard is only $9 admission, and Outhouse Orchards has peaches and pears as well. And Dubois was voted Best Pick Your Own. Maybe we could branch out from our beloved Applewood winery? Or stick to the boozey good times? Let me know your thoughts, guys! Ooh, can't wait to make some apple bread.


  • I got cast in a reading! Duncan sent out an email to a bunch of us to submit ourselves to Oberon's reading of The Empress of Sex and the director cast me as...uh, the Empress, I think! Other people I know, like Walter and Amada from PCTF, are also in it. The rehearsal is next Sunday, and the reading is the next day. So now I gotta update my website.


  • To which, BTW, I have been adding more and more content (note the video clip from The Promise and the audio of me singing "Come Away, Death"), as I get used to iMovie on my lil' Macbook Air. Everyone is right--iMovie is infinitely better than Windows Movie Maker. Truly, I cannot believe Dell or anyone would allow Microsoft to crap all over their hardware with WMM--it is easy to learn but has way too many bugs and is frustrating as hell. No program would be better than WMM.


  • As I announced on Facebook, I'm taking on a new project. I was so angry at the rape cop verdict, I decided I had to do something with that anger. I did some research and found out about a fantastic organization that really fills a need--a group called RightRides, that offers FREE rides home on the weekends to women and those who identify as LGBTQ (since the aim of the group is to tackle gender-based street/subway violence). I'm going to be volunteering with them as a driver! They operate from 12-3am on Fridays and Saturdays--if you need a ride, call (888) 215-SAFE (7233). They serve 45 neighborhoods in NYC, and they add more according to demand--so even if they don't serve your neighborhood, call 'em anyway so they'll add it!

    (888) 215-SAFE (7233)

    How much fun will that be? Riding around the city late at night, chatting with passengers--I'll be like a preppy, blonde Travis Bickle!


  • Happy Birthday, Prince Harry! He was born right around the time of my cousin Jessica.


New Music

Apr. 20th, 2008 03:33 pm
ceebeegee: (Me)
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!



ceebeegee: (Beyond Poetry)
I've been making lots of updates to my website lately--I added a lot of pictures, I'm going to be adding some more video soon, and also recording some vocal tracks to upload. Also, yesterday it occurred to me that I already have some vocal tracks on my iPod, of various live concerts I've done. I listened to a bunch last night--obviously I'm not going to use any from high school (God forbid! nobody wants to hear my thready little voice singing "Turtle Dove" or "Bridge Over Troubled Waters") but there are a couple from college I could use, plus the Mozart Litany for which I was the soprano soloist. (My theory is that Mozart was having an affair with some hot soprano when he composed that work, because she has an AMAZING amount of solo material. Two full soli complete with cadenzas, plus several quartets.) I'm-a use "Hostia Sancta" and "Panus Vivus," edited, of course. On the other hand, "Agnus Dei" starts off with a rather nice sustained note...I definitely have to edit them because I don't want the faster runs in the clip. I do them fine but not great, and I don't want any vocal clip on my website not to show me off. Runs have always been my biggest liability as a classical performer. In "Glitter and Be Gay" I can do the chorus "A ha ha ha ha ha" section fine (and I attack the perfect fourth and the major sixth intervals rather well indeed, if I do say so myself ;) , but I slip a bit on the ascending runs at the end of the chorus (that leads into "Pearls and ruby rings/How can wordly things take the place of honor lost?")

Audacity has some great little editing features, a whole ton of ways to improve the sound quality. This is good because the recording of my junior recital is not the greatest--I'll have to pump up the sound and reduce a LOT of hiss. The mike was not as close as it should've been for that one. But I'm going to use "Down East," a beautiful little American art song by Charles Ives. It shows off my voice nicely (very sustained melody line) and it demonstrates my musicianship--it starts off with an extremely chromatic, just-barely-minor section, then transitions into a sweet lilting melody and even samples "Nearer My God, to Thee." Beautiful little pieces--I love the Ives. I may or may not include the Schubert lieder I performed--I haven't listened to them lately but as I recall, "Die Yonge Nunne" is good but I go a teeny bit sharp in "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (in the "und ach--sein kuss!" part). Well, if you're going to go sharp, I suppose when Faust kisses you, that would be the logical place :D

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