Festival Week Flurry

The faculty would stop and stare
at the students running everywhere.
How they ran up and down the halls
answering to their sudden calls.
Their sudden calls to to sing, play and speak
for this is none other than festival week.

Yes, festival week has finally arrived and we are all in a hurry to get everywhere we need to be. Basically, along with our normal ensemble rehearsals and performances we now have recital performances as well. I had my chamber recital Wednesday and it was absolutely amazing. We sang a song by Monte Verdi and the Lord’s Prayer. Not only were they absolutely gorgeous to listen to, but also they were a lot of fun to sing as well. It made for one heck of a concert.

I’m also preparing for my orchestra and choir performances. We are currently working extremely hard trying to make everything absolutely perfect down to the last note. I’m not particularly worried because I know we will pull through. Of course, we won’t know until Friday and Saturday so you better come see for yourself.

Along with those recitals I am also doing two student recitals for festival week. My first is on Saturday at 9am. I will be playing concerto for string bass (for those of you who don’t know, it’s the instrument that’s your height) by Antonio Capuzzi. It’s a wonderful little song filled with a very buoyant melody along with some drama and beauty.

I’m also having a recital on the same day at noon. I will be singing “Bright is the Ring of Words” by Vaughn Williams and “Gia il sole dal Gange” by Alessandro Scarlatti. They are really great pieces and I have been working very diligently on them with my voice instructor here, Dr. Andrew Whitfield.

Unfortunately, that seems to end my time here at LSM. It’s been a wonderful experience full of long hours of practicing along with many hours of fun and enjoyment. Sometimes they even went hand in hand. It has been absolutely amazing and I hope to return next year. So for my final parting I have but this to say,

Music, melody and many more things starting with M
did I manage to find here at LSM.
Burma-Shave

-Colton, voice and string bass student