Dienstag, November 08, 2005

Pandora was right, and I am Gretchen

Arrghhh... I have to admit to myself everyday that I'm a darn slow reader... Nnngggh... And Pandora was right, Maison Ikkoku is my slowest set so far... -_______- Haha, I don't read at home, and when I have the intention of reading on the bus, I dozed off instead.

Tsk tsk, excuses and excuses... By the way, I started on Maison Ikkoku since last year! That's even more embarressing eh, Pandora? ;)

Buahahahahahaha!!


Sung Gretchen am Spinnrade for Frau Lim this evening. It's the song that most singers would fear. Frau Lim even commented that we might have to work on this song for at least three weeks! Woohoooo! Crazy of Schubert to write such sustained lines. But well, the song's better than his Op. 1 I think, and Schubert's of course better than Beethoven. ^^

I think Frau Lim wasn't expecting me to be in my tip-top condition today, since I gave a disgusting performance last lesson. Either way, or that she wasn't expecting me to deliver a strong tone at my first Gretchen attempt. Yay. The killer was at the last three pages. The part where Gretchen became passionate and was imagining herself embracing and kissing Faust. The most difficult line was "an seinen Küssen vergehen sollte" [deep in his kisses I would willingly pass away/die]. Arghh, my own crappy translation, lol. The line was crazy! It starts at the higher octave, and then at the word "vergehen" [pass away] leaps straight to an A! It is not high, but it is tricky. Coz even after the high A it comes back down to a C#. Meaning I can't float away with my high registers after hitting the A but I can't release my control either before falling back to a lower register. Bleh. It's no wonder Gretchen is a nightmare for sopranos. Yet, hey-hey, I did it right during my first attempt without practising for more than two hours for the past two weeks. Yay!

And at one point, Frau Lim asked me this: "Have you been in love?"

Whoa.

I don't know if it has anything to do with the Gretchen song, but gosh, she popped that question out of nowhere. I answered seriously with a "Yes, I have."

God knows how I managed to say that one out. And that wasn't the end of it. She continues:

"Are you in love now?"

Oh gawd, "Yes."

Telling that to a teacher who is around my mum's age is sheer madness. Wonder why she even wanted to know. o_O

Well, vaguely speaking, I am in love everyday, aren't I?

posted by empress @ 5:57 PM