This quarter has been a long journey. The Chamber Choir concert came on week 7 instead of 8 or 9. The choir returned to my favorite Santa Barbara venue, St. Anthony's Seminary. Since the choir is preparing for a European tour our year's concerts will feature American composers. Our Fall concert, titled
Americana, kicked off the series. We revisited a few of my choral favorites including two
Whitacre pieces,
Her Sacred Spirit Soars and
Lux Arumque, and Joshua Shank's
Musica animam tangens. 
The next afternoon the
UCSB voice students presented the opera scenes we had prepared all quarter. My scene can be seen above. The scene is from Lee
Hoiby's Summer and Smoke, adapted from the Tennessee Williams play. This was a very
difficult scene. We had no help form the piano as far as musical cues or the other singers. But it came together nicely and was a lot of fun. The other scenes can be seen at
www.youtube.com/user/UCSBVoiceDept .
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