donnaW | March 21, 2010
Spring break has been very productive! I was able to finish setting another Anna Akhmatova poem titled I taught myself to live simply. I’m spending time with more of her poems in hope of setting one or two more to make a set. These pieces might be the next thing to go into the studio since they are just voice and piano with a little percussion.
donnaW | March 17, 2010
| Fri. Mar. 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Sat. Mar 20, 2010, 7:30 p.m. |
St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Denver Wheat Ridge Methodist Church, Wheat Ridge |
Catch Donna as the alto soloist in Louis Spohr’s Mass , along with several other double choir classics with St. Martin’s Chamber Choir.
donnaW | March 16, 2010
What on earth is this for? Right now, it’s about getting ready to market an album that is months away. Much of the music is written, though there is still more to come. Right now, I’m working on a set of miniatures based on poetry by Anna Akhmatova, and am arranging a piece about Norse mythology that will be part of a suite. Only one piece has been recorded, and that is still a rough cut (Pajaros – part of which you can hear on my homepage.) This is scary stuff for me. There are so many completely amazing musicians out there – does the world need another lame album by another lame chick singer? Today I heard a piece on the radio that was pretty bad. I’m guessing it got airplay just this once, because it’s a local project. If this project becomes some sort of bad vanity project, I hope I have the good sense to dump the project before trying to release it. Yikes – what a depressing thought!
