To: Vocalist <vocalist>
From: Naomi Gurt Lind
Subject: re: More on the Senior Recital: Contemporary Group
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Karen wrote:

>Right now I'm thinking of doing either a group of gray area/crossover
>composers such as Weill, Blitzstein, and Ricky Ian Gordon or a group focused
>on the concept of teaching and learning (I'm a music ed major).

How about Bernstein's "I hate music" -- a cycle of five kid songs for mezzo
or soprano. (Premiered by a mezzo but are comfy for many sopranos.) This
sort of combines the two themes above...

And your other idea is a good one, too. Songs making gentle fun of singing
life are always successful -- you can include "A word on my ear" (Flanders
& Swann, about a soprano who is tone deaf) and "Vocal modesty" (Thomas
Pasatieri: "I just love my voice, I adore it...").

Good luck!

NGL