Nothing too important...

Holy crap it was HOT today... This needs to stop.
I WANT AUTUMN WEATHER!!!!!

I have been teaching at an upscale kindergarten/day care school here in Tokyo since this past August.

I mainly teach 5 yrs. olds singing and also discipline/manners/etc...

Along with that, I get the little ones, they are as young as 6-8 months olds and up to 3 yrs. olds, to do English immersion.

No big news here other than these kids are SO damn CUTE!!!!

that is all...

That was today.

Well, Monday was a study session that happens every once in a while.

We have a Japanese Arts dealer who LOVES opera and classic music in general.

He rents a large studio for bunch of singers and make us sing in front of him and everyone else.

We all make comments/advice(mainly he and yours truly make comments/advice) to singers involved.

It is quite fun though because we all make improvements by performing in front of others.

These opportunities to sing in front of someone in a large space is hard to come by here in Japan.

We got some great singers in the group too!

So that is fun.

Of course, not always fun and games but nonetheless...

Thanks to this study session(or as everyone calls it "Master Class"...), I got to try out my new aria that I will be using for an audition.  The same one I mentioned few days ago.

It went alright for a first time with a pianist since last working on this piece almost 2 years ago.

Of course, there will be a lot of fixing to do in this piece to get it up to performance level.

We got one more class on Thursday so I'm gonna try again then.

Until then, I have couple other things so study... Like "La Boheme", "Kojiki"...

OH YEAH, I'll be doing a Christmas Dinner Show in Karuizawa in December!

I'll post more about it here.

秋らしく無い暑い日でした・・・

ほんまにやめて欲しいわ！

今日は夏から教え始めたちょっと(＝かなり)高級な幼稚園で歌を教えて来ました。

いや〜、小ちゃい子達は可愛いね〜〜〜。（笑）

月曜は数ヶ月前から参加し始めた勉強会が有りました。

今回はオーディションに使おうと思っているアリアを歌いました。

まー、1回目にしては上手くいった方かな？

でもまだまだ整えていかないとダメですね。

約２年ぶりに伴奏と一緒に歌ったせいか最初は緊張半分・興奮半分で力みなぎり過ぎちゃいました。（汗）

また木曜も有るんで、その時もう一度挑戦しようかな？

でもその前に他にも色々と勉強しないといけない物が有る・・・

「ラ・ボエーム」とか「ドラマチック・コジキ」とか・・・

あ！後１２月にやるクリスマスコンサートの選曲とか！

そうです、12月14日に軽井沢でクリスマスディナーショーをやります！

また詳しい事が分かったらここで書きますね。