After performing Rossini’s Moise et Pharaon at Carnegie Hall
I lead a double life as a humble school teacher by day, face-in-the-background chorister by night, and this blog is a journal of my adventures through music. My formal music education ended in high school, but my years singing Miami Sound Machine medleys in our high school’s show choir and playing The Monkees in the marching band in Deer Park, Ohio, set me on a trajectory that’s found me performing regularly in Carnegie Hall all these years later (with many fascinating stops along the way). I can’t tell you much about the intricacies of the social-political-artistic shifts that led composers from the baroque to the romantic, but I can tell you how Rachmaninoff’s Vespers found me at just the right moment in my life, how singing it in its entirety helped me to grow as a singer and as a human being.
So that’s what this blog is, one layman’s reflections on the music he feels fortunate and blessed to be singing.
