New poem (well, actually an old poem I'm just posting now) on Reflections:
http://jacquelynsreflections.blogspot.com/2011/12/connection.html
http://jacquelynsreflections.blogspot.com/2011/12/connection.html
Friday, December 30, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
New Recording - "What Do You Want"
Here is a song I recorded at 3 in the morning Sunday night. I was actually trying to record another song, but tried about ten different takes and didn't like any of them. So then on a whim I started singing this song while the camera was still running, and I ended up getting a performance I was pretty happy with.
It's called, "What Do You Want?".
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Voice Audition
I got this email this week from SFCM...
I hope I'm not boring you by sharing my mail, but I thought maybe it might be interesting to some people who may never have seen an audition invitation from a conservatory... And it's memorabilia for the scrapbook, right?
I'm so excited!!!
Here it is:
Dear Jackie,
We are pleased to inform you that your voice audition for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music has been scheduled for Sunday, February 19th, at SFCM. Please read this entire message carefully and print this e-mail for your records.
1. To confirm that you will be attending, please reply to this email and add the word ‘Confirm’ to the subject line.
2. All applicants must check-in at the front desk at 3:00 pm and attend an orientation meeting at 3:15 pm. The meeting will provide you with information about our admission process and give you the opportunity to learn more about our school. Tours of the building will take place immediately following the orientation meeting.
3. Your audition time is 7:40 pm. In case we are running behind or ahead of schedule, please be ready to sing 15 minutes before your scheduled time and be prepared to stay later if necessary. The audition itself should last no longer than ten minutes. We do not administer any tests in theory, musicianship, etc. As soon as your audition is over, you're done!
4. We will provide a warm-up room with a piano for the 30 minutes before your audition.
5. If you signed up for a piano accompanist through the application, we will provide one for the audition itself. You will have a few minutes immediately before you enter the audition to discuss your music with your accompanist. We are unable to accommodate requests for advance practice time with your accompanist, but please rest assured that s/he is a member of our professional accompanying staff here at the school and will be very familiar with your repertoire.
6. Please bring music for your accompanist to the audition. Please also bring a short passage or poem to read after you have finished singing. You do NOT need to bring, or to send in advance, any additional copies.
7. Our building is located at 50 Oak Street between Van Ness and Franklin streets in downtown San Francisco's Civic Center. Information about visiting, including hotels, transportation and parking in the area, can be found on our website at www.sfcm.edu/prospective/visiting.aspx.
8. Coming to San Francisco for your audition will allow you to get to know our school and city. We encourage you to take advantage of your time here by attending classes, rehearsals and performances. Our performance calendar is available online at www.sfcm.edu/calendar/calendar.aspx. We would be happy to reserve a complimentary seat for you at any ticketed event if you contact us at least two weeks in advance.
You are also welcome to contact our faculty directly to try to schedule a consultative lesson. We recommend contacting them at least two weeks in advance of your audition. Faculty email addresses are available on their individual biography pages at www.sfcm.edu/prospective/faculty.aspx.
9. If you do not intend to audition for admission, or if this audition information is somehow in error, please contact us immediately.
We look forward to meeting you and presenting your application to the Admission Committee. Please contact us at admit@sfcm.edu or 800-899-SFCM with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Tessa Borelli
Associate Director of Admission
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.503.6231
I hope I'm not boring you by sharing my mail, but I thought maybe it might be interesting to some people who may never have seen an audition invitation from a conservatory... And it's memorabilia for the scrapbook, right?
I'm so excited!!!
Here it is:
Dear Jackie,
We are pleased to inform you that your voice audition for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music has been scheduled for Sunday, February 19th, at SFCM. Please read this entire message carefully and print this e-mail for your records.
1. To confirm that you will be attending, please reply to this email and add the word ‘Confirm’ to the subject line.
2. All applicants must check-in at the front desk at 3:00 pm and attend an orientation meeting at 3:15 pm. The meeting will provide you with information about our admission process and give you the opportunity to learn more about our school. Tours of the building will take place immediately following the orientation meeting.
3. Your audition time is 7:40 pm. In case we are running behind or ahead of schedule, please be ready to sing 15 minutes before your scheduled time and be prepared to stay later if necessary. The audition itself should last no longer than ten minutes. We do not administer any tests in theory, musicianship, etc. As soon as your audition is over, you're done!
4. We will provide a warm-up room with a piano for the 30 minutes before your audition.
5. If you signed up for a piano accompanist through the application, we will provide one for the audition itself. You will have a few minutes immediately before you enter the audition to discuss your music with your accompanist. We are unable to accommodate requests for advance practice time with your accompanist, but please rest assured that s/he is a member of our professional accompanying staff here at the school and will be very familiar with your repertoire.
6. Please bring music for your accompanist to the audition. Please also bring a short passage or poem to read after you have finished singing. You do NOT need to bring, or to send in advance, any additional copies.
7. Our building is located at 50 Oak Street between Van Ness and Franklin streets in downtown San Francisco's Civic Center. Information about visiting, including hotels, transportation and parking in the area, can be found on our website at www.sfcm.edu/prospective/visiting.aspx.
8. Coming to San Francisco for your audition will allow you to get to know our school and city. We encourage you to take advantage of your time here by attending classes, rehearsals and performances. Our performance calendar is available online at www.sfcm.edu/calendar/calendar.aspx. We would be happy to reserve a complimentary seat for you at any ticketed event if you contact us at least two weeks in advance.
You are also welcome to contact our faculty directly to try to schedule a consultative lesson. We recommend contacting them at least two weeks in advance of your audition. Faculty email addresses are available on their individual biography pages at www.sfcm.edu/prospective/faculty.aspx.
9. If you do not intend to audition for admission, or if this audition information is somehow in error, please contact us immediately.
We look forward to meeting you and presenting your application to the Admission Committee. Please contact us at admit@sfcm.edu or 800-899-SFCM with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Tessa Borelli
Associate Director of Admission
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.503.6231
Thursday, December 8, 2011
San Francisco trip
I got back from my trip to San Francisco on Sunday afternoon... I had a bunch of pictures on my phone that I was going to post on here, but when I tried to transfer them to my computer, somehow they all got deleted!!! I'm not happy about that.
But, Hannah played beautifully in her concert Saturday night (I had pictures of that too!!!). I'm glad I got to hear her. Now I have to get ready because I'll be on the next symphony concert in February!
I had two lessons with Paul and a lesson with Jane while I was there. It was so fun.
Jane had a really busy schedule and she wanted me to come to her house for a lesson on Saturday morning. But since she lives in Oakland it was going to be very difficult for me to get there, so she and her husband picked me up after she was done at the conservatory on Friday night, and they drove me to their house where I spent the night to have a lesson the next day. But I forgot my bag at the conservatory that had all my music and clothes and everything! So Jane gave me a toothbrush and toothpaste and lent me one of her nighties to sleep in. We talked a lot -- and I woke up Saturday morning to a breakfast of tea and bacon and scones that they had made. It was so lovely.
Jane told me when I first saw her at the conservatory Friday night that the voice faculty had watched my pre-screening audition video earlier that day and that I was accepted for an audition in the spring. So that makes me happy! I asked her how much of my audition they watched (because I had to submit three different recordings), and she said they only watched the "Der holle rache" by Mozart (the Queen of the Night's aria from the Magic Flute). She said the faculty decided I could come after they heard only my first three notes, and they were going to stop the video, but Jane told them no, she wanted to hear the high notes and made them listen to more of it!! Of course I'm assuming they probably knew that Jane had worked with me before and was interested in having me for a student, which of course doesn't hurt in obtaining an audition....
For the rest of the time I was stayed at my friend Dhivya's apartment, and on Saturday night Paul and Yoshi took us out to dinner before Hannah's concert. Then at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday morning I was on a Super Shuttle back to the airport, and Monday morning I was teaching again back in Billings....
Now, tomorrow is the last day of classes at MSUB. And then next week I have to give a test and play for some juries. But then it will be Christmas break, thank heaven! Then I will be able to get some good practicing done....I'm so excited!
Oh, I think I am going to post the video that Jane said they watched for my audition. I uploaded it to Youtube a while ago, but I haven't made it "Public" because my teacher in L.A. didn't think it was at quite a high enough performance level to post. But I will post it here. On the last high "F", I kind of squeeze that last note out and then I smile and break my character.... so that's one of the problems. But, a lot of the other singing is pretty good. Jane did say to me, "It wasn't bad! It wasn't bad at all..."
Goodnight!
But, Hannah played beautifully in her concert Saturday night (I had pictures of that too!!!). I'm glad I got to hear her. Now I have to get ready because I'll be on the next symphony concert in February!
I had two lessons with Paul and a lesson with Jane while I was there. It was so fun.
Jane had a really busy schedule and she wanted me to come to her house for a lesson on Saturday morning. But since she lives in Oakland it was going to be very difficult for me to get there, so she and her husband picked me up after she was done at the conservatory on Friday night, and they drove me to their house where I spent the night to have a lesson the next day. But I forgot my bag at the conservatory that had all my music and clothes and everything! So Jane gave me a toothbrush and toothpaste and lent me one of her nighties to sleep in. We talked a lot -- and I woke up Saturday morning to a breakfast of tea and bacon and scones that they had made. It was so lovely.
Jane told me when I first saw her at the conservatory Friday night that the voice faculty had watched my pre-screening audition video earlier that day and that I was accepted for an audition in the spring. So that makes me happy! I asked her how much of my audition they watched (because I had to submit three different recordings), and she said they only watched the "Der holle rache" by Mozart (the Queen of the Night's aria from the Magic Flute). She said the faculty decided I could come after they heard only my first three notes, and they were going to stop the video, but Jane told them no, she wanted to hear the high notes and made them listen to more of it!! Of course I'm assuming they probably knew that Jane had worked with me before and was interested in having me for a student, which of course doesn't hurt in obtaining an audition....
For the rest of the time I was stayed at my friend Dhivya's apartment, and on Saturday night Paul and Yoshi took us out to dinner before Hannah's concert. Then at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday morning I was on a Super Shuttle back to the airport, and Monday morning I was teaching again back in Billings....
Now, tomorrow is the last day of classes at MSUB. And then next week I have to give a test and play for some juries. But then it will be Christmas break, thank heaven! Then I will be able to get some good practicing done....I'm so excited!
Oh, I think I am going to post the video that Jane said they watched for my audition. I uploaded it to Youtube a while ago, but I haven't made it "Public" because my teacher in L.A. didn't think it was at quite a high enough performance level to post. But I will post it here. On the last high "F", I kind of squeeze that last note out and then I smile and break my character.... so that's one of the problems. But, a lot of the other singing is pretty good. Jane did say to me, "It wasn't bad! It wasn't bad at all..."
Goodnight!
The joys of progress
Okay so I know this might seem silly but I just did something that made me really happy.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I attend a religion class where we study the Old Testament, and usually when I go I play the piano for an opening hymn. Well, today, my teacher, Brother Reid, asked me if I could play a different version of "Away in a Manger" than the one that is in the hymnbook. He said he thought that there used to be a different version that he liked better than the one that is in there now - but that he couldn't remember how it went. I knew of the two different versions of this popular song, but I have never tried to play them without music... I told him I'm not a very good improviser, but that I could try - but that I probably would mess up. He said that would be alright, so I sat down and picked a key (F major), gave a little introduction, and they sang along as I played the opening hymn by ear! Of course I made some mistakes but basically it was fine - and afterward Brother Reid thanked me and said, "Now that's the Christmas I remember!".
My ears are getting better!!! Mi fa felice!
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I attend a religion class where we study the Old Testament, and usually when I go I play the piano for an opening hymn. Well, today, my teacher, Brother Reid, asked me if I could play a different version of "Away in a Manger" than the one that is in the hymnbook. He said he thought that there used to be a different version that he liked better than the one that is in there now - but that he couldn't remember how it went. I knew of the two different versions of this popular song, but I have never tried to play them without music... I told him I'm not a very good improviser, but that I could try - but that I probably would mess up. He said that would be alright, so I sat down and picked a key (F major), gave a little introduction, and they sang along as I played the opening hymn by ear! Of course I made some mistakes but basically it was fine - and afterward Brother Reid thanked me and said, "Now that's the Christmas I remember!".
My ears are getting better!!! Mi fa felice!
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