I've gotten a lot of very encouraging feedback on my singing lately. First was this semester's jury - the panel's comments were generally very positive.
When I sang my jury pieces for a friend who's a professional singer and voice teacher, he was very complimentary about my musicality, breath, line, and more - all the things I've been working on so hard lately. He capped it with "You were someone who likes to sing. Now you're someone who sings." Coming from him, a person who doesn't give compliments lately, that means A LOT! I still do a happy dance when I think of it. 😄
I had an audition the other night and used my Handel jury piece, even though I was auditioning for a G&S show, just to show them what I can do nowadays. The MD got this look on his face that I chose to interpret as "Wouldya look at what she can do!" The director hadn't heard me in 7 years and commented on how much "fuller" my voice is now. I told her I'd been working on it and she said, "It shows."
This morning I led the responsorial psalm at mass and had at least 4 people tell me how beautiful it sounded.
I still have a lot of work to do, getting all my technical stuff to be more automatic and "hard-wired," but I'm finally at the point where the years of voice lessons are starting to pay off.
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