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So this past Saturday, I did something mildly presumptuous in presenting a voice recital given by . . . . Myself.
My friend Jaime and I have been talking about doing a voice recital for several years now, primarily to give us a reason to keep practicing. Now, Dr. Robison up at BYU always said that you have to achieve a certain level of vocal beauty before you subject a room full of people to listening to you sing an entire voice recital, (hence the capstone Senior Recital of the Music Performance Major). Since I was not a performance major, I felt slightly conflicted about doing this because who's to say if I ever actually achieved that level? But luckily, I have kind friends who were willing to come listen regardless of whether my vocal beauty is of a high enough caliber.
Besides, I feel like mothers sometimes need a big project to work toward (that doesn't involve housecleaning or child-rearing.) Some moms run marathons and some moms put on recitals. (If you're Jaime, you do both. She's heading up to St. George next week to run a marathon with her husband!)
Well, for one reason or another our recital was postponed and postponed and postponed again, until finally, the stars aligned and we were able to coordinate our two schedules and our two accompanists' schedules AND were able to reserve the Relief Society room at one of our church buildings. So we did it!
We each sang 4 solos, and did 4 duets with each other, and each of us did a duet with our oldest daughter as well, so that was fun to involve those cute girls.
I've been going through the recording and figuring out what I feel comfortable sharing. :) (i.e. good enough to put online . . .) I may have more later, but here is the last song we sang--It's a trio where we each are playing the same character ("Fiona" from Shrek, the Musical!) at a different point in her life. Daphne was little-girl-Fiona, Jaime was teenager-Fiona, and I was adult-Fiona.
We had a pretty fun time, and I was really grateful to all of our kind friends who somehow managed to squeeze one extra thing into their busy Saturday afternoons to support us.
THANK YOU for listening!!!
7 comments:
Wow, that is so brave and so awesome. Next time you have a recital, I would love to come and listent!!
Wonderful! You sound amazing, even better than I remember you sounding at BYU! You should be very proud of yourself.
Your voice is as beautiful as always! Great job to all three of you!
Loved your recital and Kirra loved it even more! Thanks for sharing your singing talents with people like me who have none. You are awesome!
you're so cool! thanks for sharing, i know exactly what you mean about having something to work towards too, keeps you sane ;)
and you sound amazing!
I love that song from "Shrek!" I had never heard it before. Your recital was fabulous and inspiring!
I loved your recital great job. Kaitlyn loved that song she thought Daphne did a great job.
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