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@mannes @thenewschool Voice Ped students play with the ultrasound machine @thegraduatecenter ! These guys are amazing and we played with spoken versus sung vowels, dark and bright vowels, German, French, tongue movement on a single vowel over scales/through passagi etc. thank you Kevin Roon and Rion for facilitating this fascinating session! So much potential for teaching—I think we were all immensely inspired today. (The ultrasound image is of a beautiful [u] vowel.) #teachingislearning #mannesschoolofmusic #singing #genioglossus #vowels #hyoid #voicepedagogy
12-voice Singet dem Herrn, Buxtehude, and the stunning D. Scarlatti #stabatmater next Tuesday eve at @stjohndivinenyc with @musica_sacra_new_york led by the wonderful @michael.sheetz and @kenttritle this piece (all six motets) is absolute polyphonic perfection; I could sing it every week for the rest of my life and still find new ways to feel it. #singetdemherrn #bachmotets #fuguetaboutit 😍
Perfecting the #momspread #mta #nyc h/t the brilliant and delightful @kirstensollek
“The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live.”
Shiny, happy Kansas City faces post-concert today. Beautiful venue and gorgeous solos by @joeybeut and #annadennis #kastalsky #requiem @clarion_music_society @kcchorale
Delicious coffee at the @nelsonatkins museum of art. @simpson.marissa I remember passing through KC with you nearly a decade ago! ❤️
Incredibly moving, overwhelming WWI museum and monument (the only of its kind in the US!) in Kansas City. Where we will premiere Alexander Kastalsky’s epic 1917 work, Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes, tomorrow afternoon. #clarionsociety @kcchorale #kansascity
Dreary morning but found the local coffee, the local art, a Whole Foods and a lovely walk. #kansascity #crowcoffee #kempermuseumofcontemporaryart
Outside the Kemper Gallery in Kansas City. #kempermuseumofcontemporaryart #louisbourgeois #blacklivesmatter
Last time I fly somewhere before accompanied by a small human! Kansas City with Clarion this weekend, here we come! (Time is accelerating. 🙀) @kcchorale #clarion #pregnantmezzo #pregnantsinger #kastalsky #32weekspregnant
So incredibly moved by the beauty, pain, love, and injustice in this novel. James Baldwin really is an artist-saint of the 20th-century. His words make me want to go to law school and work on criminal justice reform....never too late, right? #jamesbaldwin #ifbealestreetcouldtalk
Congrats to all involved in Place; so provocative so creative with amazing performances by all. @hedtearne is really one of my favorite composers and I’m constantly blown away by his work. Go see it tomorrow or Saturday at @bam_brooklyn #bamharvey @bethmorrisonprojects @stevenbradshawart amazing job!
I’m not going to pretend that this past week hasn’t been physically taxing...as much as I try to push myself through and put up the front that I’ve felt GREAT all the time while pregnant, the reality is that standing for several hours every night is a challenge for everyone (mentally and physically) and I’m definitely feeling the effects of carrying another human. # # BUT the tremendous gift of beauty and connectivity I’ve felt with *thousands* of people, all ages, colors, so many friends and colleagues, people of all backgrounds, my fellow singers and speakers, and all of the people who wander through with a magical, transformed look in their eyes....I’ve never held so many strangers’ gazes nor have I ever smiled at so many people in a week. Our faces all seem to find each other in recognition; weary from the news, weary from the world, and for a few hours every night we have been able to escape that heaviness through human connection, catharsis, understanding, empathy, and hold onto each other in a really profound and spiritual way. I can’t think of a better lullaby my son will know before he’s out of the womb: “No we don’t talk. But people get to know each other just by walking past each other all the time.” Would that we look at our communities and the world this way; New York City encapsulates all of humanity and I’m deeply honored to be alive and active as a member within this community. I wish for this beautiful piece (and for people yearning for connection everywhere) that it might travel to other cities and towns so that people can embrace each other and heal in such a meaningful way. Thank you @milelongopera @davidlangmusic @diller_scofidio_renfro @claudiarankine #annecarson #donaldnally @kevinvondrak @ezbklyngrl @carlooto @nytelyte @misterfonda and the countless other creative team, musicians, and staff that have enabled this transformative experience for us all. ❤️
Got a little teary when I saw this one approaching on the High Line. We miss you @sarahenb5 ! #nyc @milelongopera #brooklynlove #vanderbilt #music #kitties 💓 (thanks for the pic @lisapianomoore was so great to see you too!)
“Fun” morning at a childbirth class and tour of BK Methodist hospital...getting real. I think I may have been the outlier when I really took things to the “placenta smoothie” level in one of my questions during class. Followed by a lovely misty stroll through the Grand Army Plaza farmer’s market, Joyce bakery, and a beer for Red at BierWax. #bonding #31weeks
Our bathroom floor (into which you can see our landlord’s kitchen) and the pipe with a giant hole that was discovered therein. Very glad this is happening before baby. And par for the course when you live in a house that was built in 1857...?!! #fortgreene #historic #brownstones
Mother and daughter on the high line for David Lang (and Co.’s) Mile Long Opera immersive experience on 10/2. Continues through 10/8; free tix all gone but I believe there will be a standby line each night starting @ 7pm at Gansevoort. I’m stationed by the 16th street bathroom (praise). Was quite moving singing to hundreds of passers-by “No we don’t talk. But people get to know each other, just by passing by each other all the time.” @milelongopera
Evolution of a #grapepie #concordgrapes secret to a good pie crust dough is sprinkled chilled #vodka
Ginger carrot, sourdough miche, and homemade walnut pesto. #sundaydinner