Strauss Videos

Hetty and I after the recital

Hetty and I after the recital

Last Thursday, pianist Hetty Choe and I performed together at the Good Samaritan Village in Las Cruces, NM. We’d been working on these together for a few weeks, and we planned this about a month ago.  When she asked me if I wanted to perform some Strauss,

Some Wonderful Strauss Songs

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On Thursday night (July 22) at 7:00 PM, pianist Hetty Choe is giving a recital on which I will be singing. We’re performing five Richard Strauss songs that we just love. After our set, she will be playing some Chopin and Rachmaninoff solo piano works. The recital is free and will take place at

Recital Strategies: “What would Bruce Springsteen Do?”

Can you name the best performances that you’ve ever seen? How about copying their good qualities – regardless of genre – for your recital?

Review: The Art of the Song Recital

Authors: Shirlee Emmons and Stanley Sonntag First Published in 1979, re-issued in 2002

If you have a song recital approaching, whether it be junior, senior, graduate or beyond (or before!), then please read The Art of the Song Recital. Since I discovered The Art of the Song Recital, I have consistently referred to

Personal Updates

Sorry for my dearth of posts this last week. A number of major events have taken place that made it near impossible to post.

First, I moved from my old apartment into a new one, and the internet is not on. It won’t be on until Thursday.

Second, the show that I assembled and

Recital Plug

So, I am beginning to advertise my graduate recital in a modest way. Here’s the poster:

Now, I am a cheap graduate student, so I put this together very cheaply. I used my phone’s 2 MP camera, a desktop wallpaper, GIMP image processing software and some time. Obviously the phone picture is not going

NYT Article on Marilyn Horne Foundation

I was lucky enough to see a Marilyn Horne Foundation artist by the name of Alex Richardson give a recital here in Las Cruces. His recital was well sung, exciting and full of interesting music. The recital also made me much more interested in the Marilyn Horne Foundation.

This article that was recently printed