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My interest in singing from various perspectives.

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Favourite Italian Musical Word: Fantasia.

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Favourite Italian Musical Word: Fantasia.

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As a teacher of both Music and Italian this term resonates with me in so many ways.

It is the Italian word for imagination.

It is also used to describe any piece that is in a freer form and of a quasi-improvisatory character: this goes from the Baroque period until the present.

Put the two together in composers such as Bach and Mozart and you have works that demonstrate exquisite flights of the musical imagination.

Such a work is a piece that I studied for eighth grade piano and in which I still find endless musical avenues to explore whenever I revisit it: Mozart's Fantasia in C minor.

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Favourite non musical sounds: Bird song.

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Favourite non musical sounds: Bird song.

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This provides a link between my own love of unforced, natural singing, one of my favourite musical compositions, "The Lark Ascending" and one of my favourite poems "Ode to a Nightingale".

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A musical place that I got to visit: Parma.

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A musical place that I got to visit: Parma.

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Just after graduating I went on a study tour of Italy to refine my spoken Italian. Part of the tour was  a fortnight stay with a family, based on interest. As Giuseppe Verdi was one of two composers that I compared for my honours thesis I stayed in Parma, where he grew up and got to play intruments that he used. i also audited a rehearsal for "Nabucco" at the Teatro Reggio.

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A song or piece that motivates me: An die freude, or the final bit from Beethoven's ninth symphony.

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A song or piece that motivates me: An die freude, or the final bit from Beethoven's ninth symphony.

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Check out this version from a ten thousand voice Japanese choir, dedicated to the victims of the 2011tsunami. Truly an expression of universal brotherhood/sisterhood.

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RAPPING (but I did the assignment) and OUT OF TUNE SINGING, largely caused by inappropriate KEY CHOICES,

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Things that used to make my teen peers wonder about me when I was 16 years old: 

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Things that used to make my teen peers wonder about me when I was 16 years old: 

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It was this image of Beethoven as a full size poster on my bedroom wall.

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A song or piece that calms me down: Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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A song or piece that calms me down: Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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You can't go past Art Garfunkle's pure, soaring vocals, supported by Paul Simon's warm deeper tones in the original recordiing of this song. It got me through some difficult personal times during my year 12, way back when.

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Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Audio)

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This man oozes music out of his fingertips. A multi-intrumentalist comedian, he is able to morph any tune from one genre to another. Last November I got to see him in his "Earl of Whimsey" tour. Here is a clip that I have found useful to show classes, prior to asking them to compose their own ringtones