Spending time at the piano at home, rehearsing with Kiki the cat. There is so much to prepare that I have sung before, but theres still time to explore new repertoire... Pangur Bán translation by W.H. Auden: Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are Alone together, scholar and cat Each has his own work to do daily; For you it is hunting, for me study. Your shining eye watches the wall; My feeble eye is fixed on a book. You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse; I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem. Pleased with his own art, neither hinders the other; Thus we live ever without tedium and envy. (This youtube clip of someones cat photos uses an audio recording by Sanford Sylvan, baritone, a professor at the Juilliard School and at Montreals McGill University, and David Breitman, a pianist, and professor at Oberlin College, singing Barbers setting A Monk and his Cat).
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:55:32 +0000
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