kaaaaaaaaat

I’m getting excited for summer and bikini weather....

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:20 -0400

I’m getting excited for summer and bikini weather. I’m sad I’m not going to an island this year, but I get to go to Canada instead :D

Here’s to summer 2013. So far it’s been great, I went to DC and tomorrow I leave for Boston! I sang at the National Cathedral and tomorrow I’m leaving to compete in Classical Singer Competition! Then after that, real world. I have to get a job to pay loans and lessons. At least I live near the beach so it won’t all suck.

thelovenotebook: EVERYTHING LOVE, LIFE & PERSONAL

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:50:44 -0400

thelovenotebook:

EVERYTHING LOVE, LIFE & PERSONAL

What a doctor, not classically-trained in music, has learned after years of attending symphony concerts.

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:08:55 -0400

What a doctor, not classically-trained in music, has learned after years of attending symphony concerts.:

mahleriana:

finding-forte:

I seriously laughed so hard

“Wagner’s chief disciple was Anton Bruckner, who wrote the same symphony 11 times, elevating the idea of chord progressions as music to its highest level.”

holy shit

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:59:18 -0400

When I listen to bad double reed players

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:55:19 -0400

thebassoondude:

aseaofquotes: Chris Cleave, Little Bee

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:53:11 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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Sat, 18 May 2013 15:39:01 -0400

"Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:00:54 -0400

“Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later – because I did not belong there, did not come from there – but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.”

- “Goodbye To All That,” Joan Didion (via commovente)

anenigmavariation: fyeahclassicalcomposers: no-hate-for-snape: ...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:44 -0400

anenigmavariation:

fyeahclassicalcomposers:

no-hate-for-snape:

victorian-gothic:

Some of my favourite composer quotes

If you reblog please leave the source in place, thank you

My music nerd self just has to point out that even though this was reblogged from a “classical composers” blog, most of these guys are late Romantic/Postmodern composers.

I make no promises ;)

Love. <3

sigmaalphaiota: givemetrills: sing we now to Sigma Alpha...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:38 -0400

sigmaalphaiota:

givemetrills:

sing we now to Sigma Alpha Iota

right in the heart strings.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:26 -0400

DON GIOVANNI

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:43:13 -0400

fachyeahoperasingers:

symphonie-fantastique: Hector Berlioz par Grandville - 1846

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:25:15 -0400

symphonie-fantastique:

Hector Berlioz par Grandville - 1846

"She was looking at the window. The words sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water out..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:17:33 -0400

“She was looking at the window. The words sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water out there, cut off from them all, as if no one had said them, but they had come into existence of themselves. She did not know what they meant, but, like music, the words seemed to be spoken by her own voice, outside herself, saying quite easily and naturally what had been in her mind while she said different things.”

- Virginia Woolf, from To The Lighthouse (via violentwavesofemotion)

Acerba Voluttà!: This needs to be said

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:14:21 -0400

Acerba Voluttà!: This needs to be said:

o-pera-is-life:

I Have to get this out of my system, so please Stick with me:
I am A 17 year old singer: and I am tired..
Because The operatic world is changing. And Not in the most positive way.I haven’t been in this business long, But the fact that Body image aka “Being skinny and perfect looking” is…

4sensesplusascarf: Whenever I hear people say that classical music is boring I just want to remind...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:13:32 -0400

4sensesplusascarf:

Whenever I hear people say that classical music is boring I just want to remind them that Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture called for a cannon to be fired a total of 16 times.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 11:13:13 -0400

moralnihilism: The Scientist - Coldplay A song that is an...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:14 -0400

moralnihilism:

The Scientist - Coldplay

A song that is an apology, but is also one of the saddest ones to ever be sung. It’s part love song, part scientific questioning. It fully alludes to a man’s powerlessness in the face of love.

Sexual orientation: opera singers.

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:59:57 -0400

Sexual orientation: opera singers.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 01:14:08 -0400