This will be my last post until after the concert on Monday. Everything is ready to go and I am really excited about it. We have dress rehearsal tonight, and I have a feeling that it will be very good. I am sure that part of this feeling is that the nasty weather seems to have given up a bit. I just went to look, and there is still 75% humidity, but at least it is a little cooler. I am a cool weather person so anything in that direction is good by me.
One thing that has been great about the concert preparation is that it has reminded me of how much I love to coach singers. It is something I have not done much of since I started composing. I have decided that that is what I am going to get back into in time. I have a lot of piano skills to refine and improve, and will never be good enough to play for concerts, but I am great at interpretation, and know how to make singers sound their best. I am not going to be able to retire, and this is something I can do until I drop. Besides that, I have shelves of music just sitting there. I will need a new piano, but I need a new piano anyway.
At one point, I went to hypnotherapy school and was pretty good at that also. So I can additionally help singers deal with blocks that they have which keep them from being their best.
Today I am very grateful to be working with all the singers Tracy Bidleman, Ilya Speranza, Anna DiRubio Schumate, Stephen Wilson, and Grechen Mundinger, as well as instrumentalists Mary Bopp, Gabe Smith, Leah Coloff, and Barrett Cobb, and our Mistress of Ceremonies, Lorene Phillips, all of whom are joining me on this concert.
I hope to see you there.
