Spring Sing
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 Singers and seekers,
Spring actually felt chillily here today! What beautiful light, especially toward the end of the day. I am getting excited.
On Sunday, I walked to Transmitter Park in Greenpoint which overlooks the East River and Manhattan -- an incredible view. I felt like singing. That pier is prime for a big Barbara Streisand film moment! "With all there is, why settle for... just a piece of sky!" "Hey Mr. Arnstein, here I am!!" Those songs that positively pole-vault themselves into the final notes... Songs that get "abandon."
My teacher, the wildly talented and kind Meagan Miller, would sometimes ask me to just "shake it out" when vocalizing. When trying to speed through coloratura runs and getting Stuck in more ways than one, she showed me that I could ask my body to hold the shape for my voice. Our entire bodies and our vocal mechanisms are indeed doing a dance: twist and shout! It is no chance choreography that has Ms. Streisand flinging her arms wide on the prow of a ship! You sing better like that.
Get busy singing, sing to the forsythia and dogwood and use your arms, torso, feet, behinds... Move, shake it out. It's Spring!
Reader Comments (1)
That's my photo from Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. You should go!