I just hit 900 subscribers, and I'm shocked, because I've been accidentally taking a break since, what? February? And my goals for this year were so ambitious...
I'm hoping to return to making CosTube videos at some point, but unfortunately for you, dear subscribers, my life has been throwing one thing after another at me. I'm preparing applications for doctoral programs in early music, and doing quite a bit of teaching and singing locally here in San Antonio, and I'm so exhausted from day-to-day life, that it probably won't be happening until December at the earliest.
In the meantime, here's something I made today. This will be one of the recordings I submit for my auditions, and it's a song from right around the turn of the 15th century.
I affectionately call this song "The Angry Bird Song," and it's one of the medieval songs I've fallen in love with.
I collaborated with two strings players from the Texas Early Music Project to make this recording as part of my doctoral applications. Thank you to John Walters and Bruce Colson, who played a strange and tricky piece of music on vielles, which are precursors to the modern violin.
The story is of a conflict between the nightingale and the cuckoo. The nightingale sings a lively song, but the cuckoo refuses to sing anything but "cuckoo," and it's so morose that it doesn't fit with the other birdsong. So, naturally, the nightingale gathers up all the other birds and orders them to just kill the cuckoo and put him out of his misery if he won't join the happy song.
Here's hoping I find the energy to share more of my projects with you all! Until that fateful day, Naomi
The Singer Sews
Hello, friends!
I just hit 900 subscribers, and I'm shocked, because I've been accidentally taking a break since, what? February? And my goals for this year were so ambitious...
I'm hoping to return to making CosTube videos at some point, but unfortunately for you, dear subscribers, my life has been throwing one thing after another at me. I'm preparing applications for doctoral programs in early music, and doing quite a bit of teaching and singing locally here in San Antonio, and I'm so exhausted from day-to-day life, that it probably won't be happening until December at the earliest.
In the meantime, here's something I made today. This will be one of the recordings I submit for my auditions, and it's a song from right around the turn of the 15th century.
I affectionately call this song "The Angry Bird Song," and it's one of the medieval songs I've fallen in love with. I collaborated with two strings players from the Texas Early Music Project to make this recording as part of my doctoral applications. Thank you to John Walters and Bruce Colson, who played a strange and tricky piece of music on vielles, which are precursors to the modern violin.
The story is of a conflict between the nightingale and the cuckoo. The nightingale sings a lively song, but the cuckoo refuses to sing anything but "cuckoo," and it's so morose that it doesn't fit with the other birdsong. So, naturally, the nightingale gathers up all the other birds and orders them to just kill the cuckoo and put him out of his misery if he won't join the happy song.
Here's hoping I find the energy to share more of my projects with you all!
Until that fateful day,
Naomi
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