I saw this tweet about a contest on Wednesday and thought, What the heck? I’ll enter! I like Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers, and have enjoyed such music for years, so I whipped up a characteristically campy but completely sincere email message to submit to the drawing:
I clicked “Send” and thought nothing further of it. Of the hundreds (or possibly thousands) of entries Nonesuch Records could receive, the likelihood of me winning would be slim. Yesterday afternoon I received what I thought was a standard reply message, encouraging me to visit Nonesuch Records’ web site and thanking me for participating in the contest:
I was gobsmacked! Of all the entries, I had been selected the recipient of the only two tickets to be given away! So, I’m in New York today, off to a very fun concert and after party, and I … Read more »
To assist with my memorization of “I Feel Pretty” from Bernstein’s/Sondheim’s West Side Story, I’ve taken to diagramming the song. I tend to be a visual learner. So, when in doubt, make a table:
Please accept my gratitude, Dr. Antokoletz, for it is thanks to you that I have a deep appreciation of structural analysis and its application in music performance, even if the music isn’t always Bartók.
As some of you already know, I’ve been cast in the upcoming Boston Lyric Opera production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann). I’m quite excited! Yesterday, one of the PAs called me to request my measurements in advance of my fitting, indicating he would send an email message and that I should respond. Late last evening I received the email, realizing I did not know my “hat size”. So this morning, the first thing I did was google “how to measure hat size“. Then, my tape measure and I stepped into the bathroom.
I was not quite awake:
It took some focusing:
At one point, the light of God entered the room:
Apparently, it was helpful, as I was then able to measure my head’s circumference accurately:
22-1/8″ is my hat size for all you milliners and hatmakers out there. Look for more posts soon about my first experience with the BLO!
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