Category: Auditions
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Jory to the world!
Last night I attended the NYS Baroque concert featuring Harpsichord player Jory Vinikour performing Bach’s Goldberg Variations. A wonderful concert – what a talent, also charming, and the audience was quite spellbound for the 90 minutes straight that he played from memory. I was late- I had a good excuse though, an audition for Opera Ithaca (check […]
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New England, what a pain!
I have to audition for a company here? What a drag. I bet there will be an amazing little restaurant to try, and a scenic bike ride afterward, too. Darnit! Update (10/23/14). No offer, but we did have dinner at an amazing mexican restaurant to celebrate post-audition, which I highly recommend doing, especially when there’s […]
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A bad audition day (for the husband)
Because I am a very lucky girl, with a very supportive husband, we go on musical adventures together as a family. Joel is a man of simple pleasures. When we are in a new town, his joys come from there being a Cheesecake Factory or a PF Changs nearby. Maybe the hotel has free USA […]
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Never trust a woman who tells one her real age
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” – Oscar Wilde I will not reveal my age, but let’s just say it’s not 2007 anymore, and it was time to keep things up to date! Who really wants to be […]
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raindrops on roses, and boys with high voices!
I’m in NYC this week, and went tonight to see an Evensong at Saint Thomas Church, which was absolutely what I had hoped it would be. It is a male choir, and there are boys about as high as my boots (so…kind of high) singing gorgeous phrases, and the blend was perfection. I know there […]
Rebecca Leistikow 