Chanteuse87 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Just thought I'd wander in and introduce myself. I'm 23, recently married, and both my husband and I consider ourselves Objectivists. I am currently getting my Masters of Music in Voice, with an outside field in Opera Studies, and my husband is a doctoral student getting his PhD in Strategic Management. We met during our undergrad, when he founded our university's first Objectivist Club in a desperate attempt to find someone else to kick around ideas with (other than his immediate friends!). We've both read AS many times, and naturally we have our own copies, and copies for lending to others We've read all of her fiction, and I'm pretty sure my husband has read all of her non fiction -- I'm not *quite* there, though I am currently slogging my way through the Introduction for Objectivist Epistemology, which is proving a fascinating (and refreshing) read. Anyway, I've become more interested in associating with other Objectivists, especially as I can't talk about many issues with my musical colleagues without a high level of disagreement, even disdain, from them. So here I am! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Welcome to OL Rainelle.That is a beautiful name.What university are you attending?Have you seen the movie yet?I think you will find a very eclectic group of folks here that will be of interest, but not all of them are "Objectivists."Once again welcome.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanteuse87 Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 Aww, thanks! One good thing about my name is that I won't have to go looking for an interesting stage name We're both at Indiana University, it's a great place. We both saw the movie Sunday, he was more forgiving of it than I -- although on the whole, we both agreed that it could have been a LOT worse, even though it wasn't exactly great.Interesting folks are always a good thing, no matter what label they go by! It'll just be nice to be able to talk about ideas without worrying about getting on the wrong side of some faculty member, or future contact. The music world is very enamoured of socialism, on the whole, and it gets old.Thanks for the welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrakusos Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Welcome aboard.... and you probably know that the board has a Music forum. Edited April 27, 2011 by Michael E. Marotta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Welcome to OL. What are your roles? What’s your fach? I’m guessing you’re an “-ina”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Welcome to OL. What are your roles? What's your fach? I'm guessing you're an "-ina".fach explained to us non German speakersGeez - I am begging you to change the avatar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Welcome to OL. What are your roles? What's your fach? I'm guessing you're an "-ina".fach explained to us non German speakersGeez - I am begging you to change the avatar...I'll switch it back soon, don't worry. I'm indulging in a bit of jargon there, btw an "-ina" is a light soprano, and so many of the roles have names that end in "-ina" that it's a kind of shorthand. Examples: Adina, Amina, um, Zerlina, there's quite a few more but I'm drawing a blank right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Welcome to OL. What are your roles? What's your fach? I'm guessing you're an "-ina".fach explained to us non German speakersGeez - I am begging you to change the avatar...I'll switch it back soon, don't worry. I'm indulging in a bit of jargon there, btw an "-ina" is a light soprano, and so many of the roles have names that end in "-ina" that it's a kind of shorthand. Examples: Adina, Amina, um, Zerlina, there's quite a few more but I'm drawing a blank right now.Thanks. I enjoy opera, but certainly not to the extent that some of the folks here do, so I am always learning more about it through discussions on OL. Amusingly, my father's brother and his wife were fanatics[meant in a good way] and had seasons tickets to the Met for over fifty (50) years, so I grew up with it and enjoyed it.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanteuse87 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 Bahaha, how did you guess I'm an "-ina?" I'm actually more of a lyric coloratura than a soubrette, but at this point I'll take what I can get, especially since I'm so young. I just sang some of the Strauss Brentano lieder on a recital on Monday -- now that's something I can sink my teeth into! Lakmé's "Bell Song" is my current favorite aria to sing, it sits really well in my voice and I get to show lower colors as well as pyrotechnic stuff, lol. I'm lucky in that I've got depth and variety as well as a fairly gymnastic top range. We're doing Der Rosenkavalier next year at IU (which I think is unbelievably stupid. The opera is way too big for university students to handle safely!), and I'm going to audition for Sophie -- but some backups would be the coloratura role in Albert Herring, or maybe Cunegonde in Candide. I'll be picking up roles for the first time this summer, since I've been concentrating on arias and art songs to work up for competitions. But I figure it's high time I started doing big girl work. Since I know most of the arias from Le Nozze, I think I'll just pick up the rest of Susanna. I've sung bits of it in workshop scenes, and it fits well enough in my voice. Well, that was a letter of a post -- you see what happens when you ask questions about someone's special interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Bahaha, how did you guess I'm an "-ina?" How? You gave your age, so assuming you’re a soprano (statistics on my side here, but still a guess) you’re probably not singing like Elena Souliotis was at age 23. Not at an American University, they wouldn’t let you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZfdLG7VJY&feature=fvsrhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXvEnMupizk&feature=fvwrelVery short career this one had. Brentano lieder, hmm, I have a recording by Gruberova of those. Given to stream of consciousness associations, here’s a little something by her that I picked strictly because I was in the audience. Rosenkavalier? Geez, they must have a hell of an orchestra! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Rainelle,Welcome to OL.That's cool you're an opera singer.I'm a conductor and composer who, unfortunately, shrugged just as my career was taking off. Don't ever do that. It's extremely painful and not worth it.btw - My Mother-in-law from a previous marriage (now deceased, both the person and the marriage ) was one of Brazil's top opera-singing teachers, Leila Farah. If you ask around, you might find people who have heard of her.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 (edited) Rosenkavalier? Geez, they must have a hell of an orchestra!Come to think of it I believe James King's farewell performance was in Die Walküre, performed at Indiana (where he taught), when he was in his seventies. So if they have an orchestra that can handle that, I think Rosenkavalier's only somewhat more challenging. And maybe they include teachers for the too demanding roles like the Marschallin. Not that Sophie's a walk in the park. I bet the tenors will be lining up for the Italian singer role. Edited April 28, 2011 by Ninth Doctor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanteuse87 Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 Rosenkavalier? Geez, they must have a hell of an orchestra!Come to think of it I believe James King's farewell performance was in Die Walküre, performed at Indiana (where he taught), when he was in his seventies. So if they have an orchestra that can handle that, I think Rosenkavalier's only somewhat more challenging. And maybe they include teachers for the too demanding roles like the Marschallin. Not that Sophie's a walk in the park. I bet the tenors will be lining up for the Italian singer role. James King actually taught in the same studio that my teacher is in now -- which is funny because they both have very similar teaching philosophies, and that ringing, almost metallic quality in their voice I get a kick out of it, at least. And yep, it's not the orchestra that anyone's worried about, it's more the size of the production (and the cost, and what it will take away from the other productions we have planned), and the size of the roles of the Marschallin and Baron Ochs. I feel like everything else is pretty doable for students, but there was only one bass in the school who would agree to sing Baron Ochs -- the others, even ones who could sing the role, refused because they didn't feel like burning out their voices while they're still in school There's a tenor in my studio who's been working up the Italian singer aria, and it's probably the most thrilling voice I've ever heard in person. I'm really hoping he'll get Rodolfo in Bohème next year instead, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Marschallin and Baron Ochs. I feel like everything else is pretty doable for students, but there was only one bass in the school who would agree to sing Baron Ochs -- the others, even ones who could sing the role, refused bThey program such a tough opera without having the main roles cast? They may as well try putting on Les Hugeunots. I'm a little surprised if students aren't lining up to take the roles, though, it should make for a great audition tape and resume item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MelissaDaisy99 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 NOTE FROM MSK: SPAMMER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Unless Lil Abner is going to join this looks like a troll to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Unless Lil Abner is going to join this looks like a troll to me.Well, Moonbeam McSwine is already onboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Please don't comment on spammers. (You can notice them by the links to things like free movies, great opportunities, etc.)I wanted to delete the post above, but the remarks after would not have made any sense.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Please don't comment on spammers. (You can notice them by the links to things like free movies, great opportunities, etc.)I wanted to delete the post above, but the remarks after would not have made any sense.MichaelMichael:My apologies. I thought that was only when the spammer started the thread. Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Oh hell Michael, I'm sorry. I did not read your spam alert and only thought it was a troll, I know the difference now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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