Considerable

Yesterday afternoon I got a text message that just said:

we're scheduled to be on all things considered within the hour

And so I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday as a member of The M6, talking about the experience of singing Meredith Monk's music. The six-and-a-half-minute story by the Journalist Formerly Known as Dr. LP is titled Meredith Monk: Of Posterity and 'Impermanence'. My voice pops up around 4:30, but Dr. LP tells the story very well and the whole piece is worth listening to. (Don't bother reading the text on the web page, though; my quote is so heavily edited that it's been rendered nonsensical. And if anyone knows how to embed the NPR audio player into a post, please get in touch.)

Regular TSR followers will remember that The M6, a six-voice ensemble that works directly with legendary composer/singer/director Meredith Monk in learning, transcribing and performing her work, recently made our debut performance to a fully-packed house at Symphony Space in New York. Since then, many kind and curious folks have asked what Meredith's music is like and whether there are any recordings of our performance. So I've edited four short movies with excerpts and compiled them into a YouTube playlist. Here's one video, with selections from a set of songs for unaccompanied voice, to whet your appetite.

We've also got a website up and running at www.m6ensemble.com. It's still under construction, but it allows you to sign up for our mailing list (if you prefer to get emails) and also has an RSS feed (if you're a feed junkie). Naturally we still have our MySpace and Facebook pages too, if you prefer to follow us that way.

Regular blogging will resume when time allows. If I owe you an email, my sincere apologies; trust that you are not alone and that I am not ignoring you. And if you're in the Bay Area, come hear Volti sing a couple of supercharged, virtuosic Kernis pieces and a fantastic, witty, political, touching piece by Eric Moe this weekend. This is not your grandmother's church chorus, I promise you.

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[The Opera Tattler]

NPR! Yay!