B: For the most part, you had great balloon breaths, that helped to sustain your beautiful voice. Every once in a while a bucket breath snuck its way in, mostly when you were surprised by the fly that almost flew into your mouth.
I: Your intonation was good you hit the bulls eye on the target or pretty darn close.
T: You have a very rich, deep expressive voice but I felt like you sort of swallowed it a little today.
D: It is hard sometimes to figure out where to place foriegn languages in our voice in a way that is sounds correct and also clear and smooth. If you release the jaw with out forcing it down and keep the brighter vowels like a and E from getting stuck in the back of your throut. it is a very slight change you are almost there already.
E: I could see that you knew what the song meant and were trying to convey it, just think about what ways you could use your intro and specific moments through out the piece to help clarify that to the audience. The fly was definitely something that kept you from fully conveying what you had previously thought out and practiced on your own.
O: It was a very nice performance.
Amber Denslow
B: You were in and out between the balloon and bucket breath. the higher notes were sometimes prepped well but others you made do with a bucket breath that lessened the ringing quality in your voice.
I: Prettty good, except when strained by bucket breath.
T: bubbly, energetic
D: I would practice the diction smooth and even to get the general flow of the words with change in dynamics, unvoiced, then with the rhythmn alone then pitch.
E: I thought that you did a great job. I would suggest that you stand your ground a little longer and pick two or three phrases that you want to move to add emphases. this will help you show your audience that you are agitated like your character would naturally be in her situation without you losing to much energy.
O: It is a hard accompaniment and you both did the best you could. I understand that had the pianist known the piece and rehearsed with you before hand this would have been a more fluid and expressive performance. It was an okay performance.
Amber the younger (Farrow?)
B: had a few bucket breaths so watch for consistancy in the breath.
I: Good intonation
T: you have a beautiful timbre. It is very melodious and a little nasally at times.
D: could work on crispness. I could understand most of what you were singing about but I don't think there was much intent in what was said.
E: what does each sentence mean to you? How would you say this if you were actually talking to someone? notice the difference in clarity of sound between you off handedly say something and when you truly mean what you say and want others to get it. you are much more precise aren't you? You also have a smoothness and flow to what you are saying.
O: this was a solid performance. Good job.
Michael Lechner
B: In your practice you could slow down your breaths and pay attention to the way they are happening. don't move on to a new phrase until you have established that you took a nice full balloon breath. Then practice getting that same full breath at a faster pace. I think that your breaths were so quick that you didn't fill them as full as you could have. This will help you sustain your nice legato phrases.
I: pretty good, vibrato a bit shaky at times.
T: You have a nice deep voice that is wonderful to listen to.
D: Just give it some time and listen to some really awesome german singers sing this song and really pay attention to the things that they do, especially what is different from the American way to say it and mimic that. I feel like you are already doing this but you have placed the sound a little too far back. If you can try to record yourself speaking and singing the text. That way you can know what you do that sounds different than what the german singers are doing.
E: It seemed like you were a bit flustered a few times but when you weren't it seemed like you were trying to be expressive. Establish good breathing, then get more familiar with the text, and even more familiar with the meaning.
O:A bit shaky but overall pretty good.
Jared Daley
B: Well, you got that down.
I: There was one little hiccupy thing after the word "with" in the endish middle of your song.
T: you have such a versitle voice; it amazes me! wow you'll be hopping between the Met and Broadway in a few years.
D: In stead of test and best I heard Tess and Bess... two easy things to tweak.
E: Again, WOW! (Or in Romanian uau!) Very powerful!
O: Stellar performance!
Sarah Gee (myself)
I could
tell that I didn't have the support that I had practiced with so many times. I
also realized that I hadn't given her a tempo and I can never get the first
note right. I'm always trying to sing do when I know full well it is me that I
need to sing. so I of course tensed up on the entrance and I sang do but i
fixed it and went up a third as fast as I could. that was what the weird left
hand thing was, me visualizing going up a third. I really am so frustrated with
this because I've been working on this for a very long time and the only sure
way of me getting it right is for me to play my pitch and think about it the
entire intro. Which I never really wanted to do because then I can't think
about breathing or expression or relaxing or any number of things to
prep. I could feel my diction sliding all over the place and not as clear
as I can do it. I, in attempt to save the song, put meaning to the wayside and
really focused on this note goes here and for this long now do this and this,
which probably made the whole thing worse. I thought about the overall
performance before it was over and I realized this in the little postlude
ending and tried to fix that too but by that time it was too late. Man, I can
really learn what not to do from this performance.
Jordan DavisB: When you weren't going to be singing high notes you had good balloon breaths but instead of more good balloons we got buckets when prepping for those high notes.
I:"a lot of airs" not quite high enough and a little strained but other wise great intonation.
T: Most of the time you had a nice round sound but when going for higher notes it was less resonant and sounded pressed like you were trying to push the right sound out.
D: really good I understood you and your intent very well.
E: good expressiveness with both voice and facial expression.
O: this was a good preformance.
Aubrianne Dunn
B: Watch out for those high breaths. make sure air comes in nice and low.
I: Pretty good.
T: You have a very silky voice, it is almost tangible but is feels very light and smooth on the ear. Very beautiful.
D: No trouble in this area.
E: Very expressive with both voice and facial expression.
O: Good job.
Emily Hess
B: I couldn't tell for sure but I think that you were breathing correctly.
I: good intonation
T: Your voice has a good presence , not flighty or really fluttery. It has a mature, consistent sound. A bit belty.
D: Good diction. I thought the song was very beautiful. I've never heard it before, that I can remember.
E: I think you could have added a bit more in variety in dynamics and in facial expression. it almost seemed like you were one of those fans that automatically turn to cool not just one specific spot. I would encourage you to pick a spot to focus and if the song requires that you have more than one point of focus then pick specific times to look at those designated spots to match the music.
O: This was a very nice performance.
Kayelee Farris
B: They seemed to be in the right place and not making the chest rise.
I: Great
T: Your voice is very clear and bright.
D: Really did a great job with the diction.
E: your voice was but your face wasn't as much.
O: Very beautiful.
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