Carmina Burana

What a wonderful work. I have the opportunity to sing the solos for this work with my job. I have been working on it for a while but have avoided it as well because of its vocal difficulty and demands. I realized after a rehearsal that I didn't get to prepare for, that I don't have it down as well as I thought. I don't know why my brain tells me I have it when I don't. I think it is because it is in my ear but only half way in my voice. I know when the tempos are different it makes me hear a different song and I feel that I don't know it at all. I get overwhelmed like my grandmother when she cooked. I am going to practice today and find road maps in the music to help me from being overwhelmed. I have been teaching musical theater this year and have had to teach belting. I have to find a way to not go to that place in this work. I think it would be no problem if I didn't teach it so much. On to a productive day of practice and then to a school opera performance. Wish me the best.