Poor little man
I've been meaning to update here for a while, but I haven't had the time. A few things I've been meaning to mention:
My Pirates at Brown was a cool experience.
I saw Yeomen at Harvard, and thought it was excellent. The tenor was the second-best Fairfax I'd ever seen, second only to the professional and sublime Nick Sales. I thought the staging was really superb, too.
I saw Patience at MIT, re-set in a contemporary American high school. The concept actually worked pretty well; they left the libretto pretty close to alone, which was nice.
I organized and hosted a sing-in; some 60 people came from around the country. It was awesome.
I've been officially invited back to Buxton as a Young Ambassador. I'm still waiting to see how much the trip would cost me, but I think I'm probably going to do it. I'm definitely going to the Festival, because I was cast in the Savoynet show; what's at issue is whether I'll stay for the whole festival again or not. I won't be able to stay with a local family again.
I'm giving a recital tomorrow. First one ever. Tonight, by now, I guess. Mozart, Britten, Poulenc, Sullivan.
That's it for now.
My Pirates at Brown was a cool experience.
I saw Yeomen at Harvard, and thought it was excellent. The tenor was the second-best Fairfax I'd ever seen, second only to the professional and sublime Nick Sales. I thought the staging was really superb, too.
I saw Patience at MIT, re-set in a contemporary American high school. The concept actually worked pretty well; they left the libretto pretty close to alone, which was nice.
I organized and hosted a sing-in; some 60 people came from around the country. It was awesome.
I've been officially invited back to Buxton as a Young Ambassador. I'm still waiting to see how much the trip would cost me, but I think I'm probably going to do it. I'm definitely going to the Festival, because I was cast in the Savoynet show; what's at issue is whether I'll stay for the whole festival again or not. I won't be able to stay with a local family again.
I'm giving a recital tomorrow. First one ever. Tonight, by now, I guess. Mozart, Britten, Poulenc, Sullivan.
That's it for now.
posted by Jonathan Ichikawa | 6:09 AM
1 Comments:
Jonathan
I wonder if we saw the same Harvard Yeomen ? I was in the US late March/early April on holiday and saw it then. Yes, agreed, the Fairfax was good, but the rest of it was a real 'curates egg', and I thought both the band and the staging were terrible ! I had a seat in the balcony, and the poor performers had so much trouble getting up and down the ladders to the raised part of the scenery - sometimes they were still visible well into the next scene after they had allegedly departed !
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