Posts Tagged: auditions

Staying Loose

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams We’ve been trafficking in some pretty heavy thinkers so far, and I’m sure that Scott Adams (the creator of “Dilbert”) would be bemused to share space with Proust and Eliot.  But he has more than earned his place by

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Wabi-sabi

(No, not wasabi. Wabi-sabi.) “There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection; of accepting transience. It reveres authenticity and is simple, slow, and uncluttered. It loves those little cracks in our lives that allow the light to

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Reframing

“Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux.” (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.) Marcel Proust One of the true bonuses of getting off the merry-go-round for a few minutes a day is that

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Being Ready

“Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.” Winnie the Pooh via A.A. Milne You thought this was going to be about tackling the audition to-do list, didn’t you? Notice I didn’t say “Getting Ready,” but rather

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The Beginning

“And so each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate.” T.S. Eliot It’s tough to remember where we started, and sometimes it’s essential that we let it go. Nostalgia is overrated and is mostly revisionist history anyway. But there had to be some unavoidable truth embedded in the decision to make music

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Sfumato

I know that my readership in conservatories and other singer training hotbeds spikes in the fall, and I’m keenly aware that many of you are looking here for some sort of clarity as you claw your way through this peculiar thing that is auditioning.  Last fall, I decided to take all of the random audition

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Desire

We who have been around a while know a dirty little secret.  The quickest way to fall short of a goal is to want it too much.  Not that there’s anything wrong with desire or ambition, for they are both necessary in any competitive environment.  But the best, most effective, and even sanest way is

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WTOC Announces Early Audition Tour!

August 20, 2010 The Wolf Trap Opera Company is now accepting applications for its 2011 Company of Artists & Fellows. The first deadline for applications is little over one month away (September 24)! The audition tour begins in New York this October, and finishes at our home in Vienna, Virginia. (Look to the Audition Calendar

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Fall 2010 on the Audition Trail!

This fall’s audition tour dates and locations have been determined.  The online application and other details will be available by August 10, but here are the dates and deadlines for planning purposes.  All sites and dates are options for Filene Young Artist and Studio Artist auditions, as well as Fellowship interviews. DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 24 New

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