Voice Lesson
The day started with the AA&A tour of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. It was a good tour...we looked at all their German and Flemish Renaissance art, which was interesting.....it certainly is way different than all the Italian art that I associate with the Renaissance (rightly so)....we spent the last 20 minutes or so on Breugel alone......oh Breugel! How adorable! What's the third leg for? Nobody knows. Why are all the children playing strange and twisted games? (like the girls playing jacks with human vertebræ, or the kids measuring the size of their poop?) In any case, it was fun, despite Gretchen constantly bringing up that Italian art of the period is so much better....of course it is! But I want to learn about art of this region and culture, even if it's not as good.....
After the tour I had to go to Doblinger to get a piece by Purcell for my voice lesson, so I split off from everyone else going back to IES and decided I would try to cut through the 1st district from the Hofburg. Well, that sort of....failed, to put it mildly....rather than taking a more direct route to Doblinger, I ended up getting lost and doing the most circuitous route in the world....it was fun to see parts of the 1st district through which I usually don't get to walk, and at least the weather was nice enough that i could enjoy my surroundings, but it was still frustrating. I got there and of course they didn't have it!!! That is to say, they only had it in the high key. Just before I was going to spend good money on a useless book so that I could transpose it in Sibelius, I realized that I could just find it on the internet (perhaps) or at worst a MIDI file which I could fix. In any case, I finally found a really cool website called schubertline.com, which is a site out of the UK where you can buy essentially printing privileges to Scorch files (Sibelius' file format for web viewing) of all sorts of Lied and art song and arias....it looks like a great resource for singers! Anyway, I went through this whole rigamarole to get it working, only to find that I couldn't print it to a PDF (of course) and I couldn't install Scorch on the lab computers (which are hooked up to a printer) so basically I had to take screenshots (thank God for Cmd-Shft-4 on OS X!!!) and then transcribe the whole thing into Sibelius. Needless to say there wasn't enough time before my voice lesson to do that, so I just explained the situation in brief to Michelle upon my arrival. She looked a little bit miffed, but I can't really tell. Anyway, I had a mediocre voice lesson....even though I had actually practiced (a rare occurrence for me) I just wasn't mentally awake enough to make significant improvement. I don't know....it wasn't bad, but I realized that I was holding myself back and it was frustrating.
After my voice lesson I went to the Gourmet Spar that's close to Michelle's place and decided to buy good salami and bread and cheese with which to make good salami sandwiches...I then returned home to fix myself dinner....the sandwich I made was OK......but afterwards I made myself 3 little tuna sandwiches on Semmeln, which are the little Austrian rolls......those were freakin' awesome! I love the tast of tuna on Semmeln.......anyway, after calling the 'rents at 11:00 I headed to bed, the end of another exciting day!
After the tour I had to go to Doblinger to get a piece by Purcell for my voice lesson, so I split off from everyone else going back to IES and decided I would try to cut through the 1st district from the Hofburg. Well, that sort of....failed, to put it mildly....rather than taking a more direct route to Doblinger, I ended up getting lost and doing the most circuitous route in the world....it was fun to see parts of the 1st district through which I usually don't get to walk, and at least the weather was nice enough that i could enjoy my surroundings, but it was still frustrating. I got there and of course they didn't have it!!! That is to say, they only had it in the high key. Just before I was going to spend good money on a useless book so that I could transpose it in Sibelius, I realized that I could just find it on the internet (perhaps) or at worst a MIDI file which I could fix. In any case, I finally found a really cool website called schubertline.com, which is a site out of the UK where you can buy essentially printing privileges to Scorch files (Sibelius' file format for web viewing) of all sorts of Lied and art song and arias....it looks like a great resource for singers! Anyway, I went through this whole rigamarole to get it working, only to find that I couldn't print it to a PDF (of course) and I couldn't install Scorch on the lab computers (which are hooked up to a printer) so basically I had to take screenshots (thank God for Cmd-Shft-4 on OS X!!!) and then transcribe the whole thing into Sibelius. Needless to say there wasn't enough time before my voice lesson to do that, so I just explained the situation in brief to Michelle upon my arrival. She looked a little bit miffed, but I can't really tell. Anyway, I had a mediocre voice lesson....even though I had actually practiced (a rare occurrence for me) I just wasn't mentally awake enough to make significant improvement. I don't know....it wasn't bad, but I realized that I was holding myself back and it was frustrating.
After my voice lesson I went to the Gourmet Spar that's close to Michelle's place and decided to buy good salami and bread and cheese with which to make good salami sandwiches...I then returned home to fix myself dinner....the sandwich I made was OK......but afterwards I made myself 3 little tuna sandwiches on Semmeln, which are the little Austrian rolls......those were freakin' awesome! I love the tast of tuna on Semmeln.......anyway, after calling the 'rents at 11:00 I headed to bed, the end of another exciting day!
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