In other news, I have a benefit event for the Cadenza Workshop that I am singing at the Saturday in Buffalo, NY. On this program I am singing one aria and one duet with the program director, which is slightly intimidating. I have prepared well, but I am going through some vocal difficulties which may be due to allergies. Regardless I will do my best and give it my all.
A couple of weeks after this event, I have a recital on June 29 back home in Rochester. This was originally going to be a fund raiser, but due to some conflicts that is no longer the case; the recital will function as a thank you to all those who have donated to my Kickstarter, which ends the night prior to the recital. CD's will be available of this recital and can be reserved by donating $25 to the Kickstarter campaign.
Immediately following the holiday in July, I will begin my two programs for this summer. I am a little overwhelmed with the amount of music I have had to learn, but I feel like I am in a good place and will be well prepared by the time I get to my first program on July 7.
Spanish is coming along slowly; I am attempting to get more consistent about working on the language including listening to a Spanish Pandora station. I am not sure how much this actively helps me, but it does reinforce the things I do know when I am consciously paying attention to them. I have noticed that I am beginning to understand more spoken and written word in Spanish, and I give LingQ all the credit for enabling that to happen. For such a simple, and somewhat controversial system, it really does produce measurable results in language learning in a relatively short amount of time. I suggest everyone check it out!
Thank you to all of you who have donated thus far to my Kickstarter campaign! Your support is much appreciated. Again I beg everyone else to please pledge to enable me to get my singing career off the ground, $10 from everyone will make my goal achievable.
