Friday Fermata

This week wasn’t as productive as I would have liked it to be – or so I thought.   I have been doing vocal acrobatics all week with back-to-back rehearsals for a Messiah concert this Sunday.  If you know anything about this work, you know that Handel doesn’t let up!  I’m more comfortable with a piece like Verdi’s Requiem (more legato with control) instead of Messiah (more acrobatics with control).  BUT, knowing that it would be a challenge, and to keeping from getting discouraged, I used it as an opportunity to work on how I viewed the situation and to make myself better.  Once I did this, I got past my vocal issues and discovered some interesting things.  For instance, their are lines in long vocal runs.  There is phrasing!  Who knew? I could do what before had been challenging.  So, although I didn’t work on my songbook this week, I worked on something much more powerful and influential in how I will progress in my career – my mindset.