June 27, 2012
by Kim
This summer’s Vocal Colors performance at The Phillips Collection (1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, near 21st and Q Streets) will take place tomorrow night, June 28. Today, Wolf Trap employees were treated to our dress rehearsal held here at … Continue reading
February 17, 2012
by Kim
There’s a good number of show folk in my life who greet a performance day with the phrase above. Many days, I call up my Facebook feed and find someone with this wonderfully exuberant phrase as their status update. Yes, … Continue reading
July 28, 2011
by Kim
Tonight’s Vocal Colors concert at Wolf Trap (to be reprised Thursday evening at the Phillips Collection) felt like the soundtrack to this whole crazy, hectic and beautiful summer. Heartfelt Vaughan Williams, luscious Poulenc, cringeworthy Tom Lehrer, raw Mahler, and the … Continue reading
June 30, 2011
by Kim
Yesterday morning, five of our Studio Artists and one of our coaching fellows took their latest project to Children’s National Medical Center’s New Horizons Cultural Arts Program. They paired songs by Rossini, Copland, Wildhorn, Bareilles and others with original artwork … Continue reading
June 28, 2011
by Kim
An audience of Wolf Trap donors, housing hosts, and frequent ticket-buyers made their own one-of-a-kind concert on Sunday. 52 songs were offered, 13 were chosen. (I was simultaneously stoked and terrified of playing Rachmaninoff’s “Spring Waters” in 5 flats, but … Continue reading
June 12, 2011
by Kim
This afternoon’s Vocal Colors concert was a real treat. Beautiful modern art from The Phillips Collection paired with a most excellent range of songs. Jamie-Rose sang Wolf, Barber, Gordon and Strauss; Catherine gave us DuParc, Heggie, Sondheim and Williams (DAR:)); … Continue reading
August 3, 2010
by admin
10:18 am with Titania & Bottom in rehearsal “Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.” … Continue reading
July 24, 2010
by admin
FUSION (noun): a merging of diverse, distinct, or separate elements into a unified whole Etymology: from fusus, pp. of fundere “pour, melt” Thursday was all about melding music and visual art. Melting the colors in the art until they became … Continue reading
July 19, 2010
by admin
The process of preparing an opera is largely additive. Learn the role inside-out, annotate and memorize. Then show up for rehearsal. Add blocking, props, costumes, sets, orchestra. Amplify and enhance until the glorious whole is bigger than the sum of … Continue reading
July 6, 2010
by Ryan
July 6, 2010 Vocal Colors – A Vibrant Fusion of Arts Onstage Click to download release here.