| Comment: Re: New Women's Group forming - REP? | Cairril Adaire | May 1, 2012 |
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Check out http://www.trebleclefpress.com/ -- they specialize in music for women's voices. A wide variety of offerings.
Cheers!
Cairril
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| Comment: Re: Problems in preparing World Music | Cairril Adaire | April 24, 2012 |
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I sing with Kaia, an 8-woman vocal ensemble dedicated to world music. We have used some arrangements from choral publishers but they stray so far from the source that it's hard to know how many generations away you are from the original song (try YouTubing Las Amarillas and see the dramatic differ... |
| Comment: Re: a piece for advanced female chorus, a cappella, fast? | Cairril Adaire | October 24, 2011 |
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"Las Amarillas" arr by Stephen Hatfield. Includes body percussion. There are many examples on YouTube but we have yet to find one that's accurate. Very challenging and fun!
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| Comment: Re: a piece for advanced female chorus, a cappella, fast? | Cairril Adaire | October 24, 2011 |
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We did a quick Japanese round called "Hotaru Koi." Perhaps that's what this is referring to?
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| Forum message: Need tips on creating super-consonants | Cairril Adaire | October 20, 2011 |
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Hello,
I'm part of a small world music ensemble (not a chorus) that sings songs in over 20 languages. We have two pieces right now that are requiring super-consonants for expressive purposes. I don't know if "super-consonants" is an industry term or not -- it's what I've heard them called b... |
| Comment: Re: singabahambayo translation | Cairril Adaire | November 9, 2009 |
| We just have the first verse but it was translated by native South African Murray McGibbon:
"We are leaving this world but we have a home in heaven." |
| Forum message: Need good Kwanzaa song | Cairril Adaire | October 14, 2009 |
| ...for our accomplished small ensemble. Something with a little percussion in it would be good, but not necessary. Suggestions? Thanks! |
| Comment: Re: What is the best way to find my vocal range? | Cairril Adaire | August 14, 2009 |
| Check out "Training Soprano Voices" by Richard Miller. On page 25, he lays out women's vocal ranges by high/low notes but all by the transition passages or "breaks" in the voice. This is an excellent tool for discovering your biological range.
I use "biological range" to differentiate from your a... |
| Forum message: Breath management for pregnant woman | Cairril Adaire | August 10, 2009 |
| We have a woman in our group who is 7 mo's pregnant. She is having great difficulty getting enough breath to sing. Does anyone have any suggestions for better breath management? We have an important gig coming up.
Thank you!
Cairril |
| Forum message: Flies in rehearsal/performance | Cairril Adaire | July 29, 2009 |
| Sunday our group kept getting bombarded by flies. We agreed that brushing them away was really distracting, but so was letting them just sit there on us. Any suggestions for how to handle this? (We were indoors, this doesn't usually happen, and we can't spray bug spray around).
Thank you!
Cairril... |
| Comment: Re: Fast Paced Music | Cairril Adaire | July 10, 2009 |
| This might be too difficult but it's an interesting Hatfield
piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSQJJkiSusc |
| Comment: Re: Recording Rehearsals | Cairril Adaire | June 2, 2009 |
| Barbara, this may be a little low-tech but I've done it in a pinch: just play the score through your computer and place the handheld recorder right next to the speakers. Record as an mp3 file. Then just transfer the mp3 to your hard drive and burn to CD. |
| Comment: Re: niska banja tonal quality | Cairril Adaire | May 11, 2009 |
| Just FYI, this isn't produced nasally at all. The classic Bulgarian sound is produced by placing the tone at the point where your soft and hard palates meet. You know you're doing it right when:
1) You get phenomenal overtones
2) You can hold the notes for about twice as long as classical Weste... |
| Comment: Re: Performance Day??? | Cairril Adaire | April 25, 2009 |
| This may be too woo-woo, but it's worked for me. One of my voice teachers had me do a visualization during a lesson. I tensed and relaxed until I was in a state of deep relaxation. Then he had me think of a time when it was really hard to sing -- when nothing I did felt right. He had me pay atte... |
| Comment: Re: Singing a style that is not our own . . . | Cairril Adaire | April 23, 2009 |
| I think most singing is a leap of faith. Ultimately, you are creating your own presentation of the piece itself. It's like acting -- Olivier's Henry V is different from Branagh's, but we see both because we want to see what each brings to the part. It's what makes performing arts "art."
I think... |
| Comment: Re: determining voice type | Cairril Adaire | April 23, 2009 |
| See "Training Soprano Voices" for RIchard Miller's chart of passaggi for each female vocal types. It's a very quick, very accurate way of classifying voices. We have repeatedly found that women are misclassified when younger and so never develop their full vocal potential. Too often singers are p... |
| Comment: Re: Recording Rehearsals | Cairril Adaire | April 23, 2009 |
| We use an old Olympus D-10 for everyday recording (makes WMA files) and a Zoom H-2 for recordings where it's critical to hear everything (mp3 files). We upload all recordings to our members only site and post performance notes alongside so everyone has the same material to work with.
We don't... |
| Archive Comments: Re: singing what you do/don't believe | Cairril Adaire | March 28, 2009 |
| * Just from curiosity, has anyone on this list actually been asked to sing the choral score to "The Omen"? I can't imagine it's a big hit at the local concert hall. :-)* Perhaps because I left the classical world long ago, I don't think it's necessary to communicate what the *composer* believed. In ... |
| Archive Comments: RE: singing what you do/don't believe | Cairril Adaire | March 27, 2009 |
| Voof! What a great dialogue."it is not a big deal for the atheist to sing to any deity for they have no belief in a deity and therefore feel no allegiance to what they view as fabrication. They can sing without feeling any spiritual repurcussion. Whereas a Christian might feel very uncomfortable in ... |
