Adventures in Wisconsin

back to blogging

2010-04-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

So I am going to be a good blogger now. Really.

My recital's all over and done with. Mom, dad, mammabeth and papageza all came into town for the festivities. It went about 95% as well as I would have liked it to so that's just fine with me :)

So now all I have to do is graduate! but spring temperatures combined with senioritis make that seem like a very far off goal...

I sent in my first real job application this week which is odd and grown-up feeling for someone who was counting quarters to buy popcorn yesterday...Anyway I applied to this program called

that's sort of like Americorps. It's a year of service focused specifically on schools in less than awesome areas. Anyways it gets a ton of applications so I dont have my hopes way up in the sky but getting a job seems like a good idea. Okay better post to come with better pictures!

oh right...posting

2009-12-29T14:05:00.000-08:00

So sometimes school gets hard and you forget you have this blog that you're in theory updating with your life.

Well I did my best at the concerto competition, and though I didn't win (singers never do) the Maestro of the orchestra came up to me and told me how much he appreciated the singing I've been doing lately so that felt pretty good. He's not a man to give compliments lightly.

So then it was getting ready for summer program auditions which is like summer camp all over again but for older people. I'm applying to programs in Aspen, Brevard NC and Chautauqua NY and we will just seeeee

But, before the school year was out, my voice teacher and her husband (chair of the voice dept.) held their annual christmas party for all their students full of cheer and singing.

Clearly I've been home since I've seen nearly everyone I'm related to over this break. Thanksgiving and Christmas were good though time went sort of disturbingly fast, and I'm due back to Wisconsin in a few days. but here are some pictures from my adventures at home. I was home for six weeks and took like..6 pictures

and here's some of my friends

and so finally I guess I'll chat about what my plans are for next year because people are asking. This is a vague answer but that'll be fine. All I know now is that I'm moving to chicago...hopefully finding a job in a montessori school for a year before applying to grad schools. And so i leave you with a picture of me in chicago freshman year. it's very circular.

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T22:05:00.000-07:00

This is a very dull halloween. The concerto competition is tomorrow so I went to a party with all my friends for...40 minutes before it was too loud and i had to go home. But look at my lovely pumpkin!

I can't give a recording of the competition though it is open and friends are coming to watch...also if I win the concert will be on internet radio for all to hear. But the chances of me winning are a shot in hell–the last time a singer won this competition was so long ago that literally no one can remember it. But here's someone else singing two of the 5 (someone that I might study with in grad school hopefully)! you should especially check out the second one

Haircuts or How Molly Lost an Afternoon to Photoshop

2009-10-23T15:36:00.000-07:00

Yes I have decided to bring the 1930s back via my hair. It's a small effort but we'll see what happens. This haircut mostly grew on me when I realized the photoshop potential of making a million photos looking vaguely like they came from the 1910s-1930s.

It seemed like a decent way to spend a rainy afternoon. Trivia weekend at Bjorklunden was fantastic. Sorry there haven't been a lot of posts. I haven't taken tons of pictures lately and I feel cheap when I post things without pictures.

It was fall here for a nice long time but then this wretched rain appeared a couple of days ago and since then all our leaves have migrated to the ground. It snowed too but that doesn't count because it didn't stick. I'm pretty pleased that I'll be in Virginia where it's decently warm from thanksgiving to new years...though it'll make coming back to negative temperatures rather depressing.

But we just discovered that the bowling alley/bar near our school has free bowling for those over 21 because of their desperation for some business so we were pleased to take full advantage of free bowling (this is what there is to do in Appleton Wisconsin).

some stuff which is happening or has already happened.

2009-10-06T11:14:00.000-07:00

Well Opera auditions went down with lots of drama. Very long and painful story short I didn't get the role but was given super kudos and encouragement, including one of our most critical teachers urging me to continue on in music because I have a future waiting for me in it. So...yeah okay. So I ran off to the woods for the weekend with some friends and started working on my new project

So now my new project is the Concerto Competition, which is actually a bigger deal than the opera auditions because a vocalist hasn't won since the early 80s...it's a conservatory wide competition with three representatives from each division (violins, singers, trombones etc) and three winners get to perform their solo with the orchestra in a simulcast orchestra concert. So that's nifty...I have about a month to pull that together super fast...hooray!

In other news I made it onto the official Lawrence Youtube channel. My life is pretty much complete now. Matt's story is more moving and I look like I haven't slept in days which is accurate because alex (the filmmaker) called me at 8am and asked me to come do the interview but it's my claim to fame

I've also been writing the "artist spotlight" column for my school newspaper which you can check out weekly at http://www.lawrentian.com/

And...I am busy busy busy. OH! And I'm a trivia master! this is very exciting for everyone who is me. That means that at the end of january I'll stop sleeping and be a little bit crazy but in the best way :)

Training!

2009-09-04T17:24:00.000-07:00

HRLA training done. RLA training in full swing. Not a whole lot to report. Maura got back today and Tim gets back on sunday so soon I will be filled with joy. For now I just got to put out fires which was pretty cool...my friend John documented the whole tragedy.

This was me a while after starting to put out the fire...

John captures my fury on the way back

almost back to school...

2009-08-23T15:49:00.000-07:00

Hmm...well I guess people DO still read this as a weekend at the beach confirmed. So the big news is that I'm going to be the Head RLA in Trever Hall this year so I can...basically do the same thing I did before. It's pretty minor but it means a pay raise which i'm pleased about. Pictures from trip home to follow

New room, old dorm

2009-08-13T10:34:00.001-07:00

Well here I am back in Trever. Promptly after moving in I work up with some impressive nausea etc. I am deciding not to take it as a sign. So i'm not really unpacked but here's a preview of my room

I may have some exciting news tomorrow... I'll post. Though I suspect now that half of the fam is on facebook that's mostly what they're looking at anyways. Little do they know I have made all these fancy header changes and my life probably makes more sense through this medium than facebook. so...there.

Summer activities

2009-08-07T11:53:00.001-07:00

So when my friends Stephen and Alicia approached me earlier this summer and told me about a webisode project they wanted to start filming this summer, I got pretty excited to see what they could come up with. When they asked me to be in it I got more excited. Anyways, webisode 1 rough cut is up on the internets so I thought I'd link to it here. More to come in the future- shocking plot twists, more hair flipping

More and More adventures!

2009-07-30T20:32:00.000-07:00

This has been a lovely summer. My friend Jeff came back from Indiana and it was a day of much rejoicing. He and my friend Molly (it's confusing, yes) have decided to ditch their vegetarian ways...in theory, except they wimped out for our bonfire and weended up roasting veggie italian sausages which were really quite delicious. Then we ate smores till we thought we would die...it was great

From Blogger Pictures

Then Jeff and I and a couple of our friends went up to Michigan! Tim and Liam are working at the Interlochen art camp so we visited them and went camping in the national park literally across the street.On the way up we also discovered the lovely town of Charlevoix, Michigan and it's summer carnival which made us about 45 minutes later than we planned...the upper peninsula of Michigan is a really lovely place. This whole trip was totally amazing and Michigan was beautiful. I wish I had pictures of the lake on the day we went swimming–the water looked like something from a tropical island, turqoise and see through. It was awesome. But I don't have pictures because we ran down a dune so steep, I realized midway through "running" (I don't really have a good word for the action downhill that was keeping me from just falling) that the clouds were sideways from the angle. So now I'm in appleton for a while with no exciting plans till I head back home for a brief bit :)

From Blogger Pictures

More adventures!

2009-07-15T22:07:00.000-07:00

Went to Milwaukee this weekend! It was pretty good–there was a big Bastille Day festival which we spent most of our time at. So here are some pictures of us in paris and at the art museum:D

From stuffs

There were also these little ballroom dancing kids at the festival that were completely amazing. we sat and watched them for a while totally transfixed

I've been working at Build-A-Bear which is adventures galore. It's actually pretty cute though :) This weekend I'm here and not working so I'm not even sure what I'll be doing. My friend Jeff just came back to Appleton so I'm excited to hang with him! And then next weekend we're going up to visit Tim at Interlochen in Michigan which I cannot wait for! It's so beautiful up there! Post pictures when I get back :D

Summer in wisco

2009-07-08T01:15:00.000-07:00

So summer is strolling along. Thanks to everyone who sent b.day wishes! My birthday was pretty great–a group of friends and I went out to some bars and had fun without having too much fun :D

I've gotten a couple of part time jobs around here so this summer should end up quite alright! There's been some random adventures around here. On the 2nd of July Tim called and said he was going to Chicago and a bunch of our friends live down there so i found a ride and with little to no planning went on a spontaneous adventure to Chicago!

we hung out in my friends mike and jacob's apartment most nights. We spent the 4th of july on their roof with fireworks going off in every direction for hours! It was pretty fantastic.

and then here are some random pictures. The first one is from chicago, at my friend's annie, clare and peter's house where a tiny baby was getting passed around :) the next two are from a marshmallow bonfire Tim, Jeff and I made and the last one is typical Jacob on the front lawn with his banjo from the end of school

Going to Milwaukee this weekend and Michigan in 2 weeks! Summer of adventure!

recital pictures!

2009-06-25T22:01:00.000-07:00

Here they are! With mom's fine handy work on adding that pin to the neckline of my dress since I'd lost weight since purchasing it..and didn't really realize that until the morning of my recital...

summer injuries

2009-06-21T21:25:00.001-07:00

Haha you guys can look for some more entries this summer because I have a lot of free time which I love. I'm getting so much work done now that will save my sanity in the fall (planning my senior recital, learning opera audition material, writing my tutorial syllabus etc). Tragically a lot of that involves me playing the piano/typing which was made rather difficult by a series of stupid events. First while I was moving I did...something. I vaguely remember 3 or 4 incidents that could have caused this but that evening my 4th finger on the right hand was giaaant and swollen. It's better now but it still doesn't like to bend all the way. Then there was an incident with a ceiling fan...
anyways my hands look like this now

boo. Oh well. Wish me luck on my job interview. Maura came to visit this weekend which was nice and I found my driver's license which is good because there isn't much use in a 21st birthday if you can't prove you're 21 :)

summerrrr..

2009-06-17T12:19:00.001-07:00

That's my new room! it only took just on the side of forever to move in... but now I'm moved in and I get to move all over again in two months...
I'm keeping myself pretty busy up here, preparing for senior recital, teaching aural skills lessons, working for residence life in addition to doing RLA stuff. I've also applied for a couple of jobs so we'll see what happens with that. If anyone needs the new mailing address you can email me at wilsonmo@lawrence.edu and I'll send it to you.
I have a couple little trips happening this summer. One of my best friends is living in Milwaukee this summer so I'll be going down there to visit her a weekend or two. In July my friend Jeff and I are heading out to Michigan to visit Tim and to get some "beach" time. I'll probably be in Virginia for a week in august (probably the second week) so hopefully I'll see some of you then. Otherwise I'll be back from november to january next year and you'll be completely sick of me!

drawing to an end...

2009-06-02T13:34:00.000-07:00

So spring continues to be springy...sort of. by that i mean it hovers between 50-65 degrees. But with one week left of classes everything is getting sort of silly around here. Saturday night was a fraternity formal that I went to with a friend and sarah and her boyfriend and a bunch of our other friends found dates and it was much more of a party than a dance with proper dates.
Then came the choir olympics which is a very silly occasion where we get the probably most unathletic group of people on campus and ask them to participate in a series of foolish events. One of which is the official sport of concert choir which was invented a couple years ago and played annually which consists of two circles of people who walk around while some choir member plays songs about birds/flying etc for a while until screaming "BIRDIE ON A PERCH! BIRDIE ON A PERCH!" at which point someone from the inner circle and someone from the outer circle need to pair up and one of them must be entirely off the ground, "perched" on the other person...anyways...it results in a lot of silly pictures.

we also took a boat out onto the lake behind bjella's lake.

and here's a picture from opera scenes. recital went well too but I dont have any pictures of that because mom took 'em all. So when i get some from her I'll post 'em. But...the recital went really well and I felt really good about it all!

Spring?

2009-05-17T10:53:00.000-07:00

It's hard to tell if it's really spring here yet
but we're not wearing winter coats and we even found some green things

Opera scenes is on thursday! My recital is on saturday! mom comes on thursday! there's so much going on it's sort of crazy. In addition to all of that I've managed to find enough time to start dating someone so here's mr. Timothy Phelan

He's a senior trombone major but he'll be around next year because he used to be a double degree with a B.A in Religious Studies. He's from Iowa (from the same town as Maura!)and is just a very nice young man.

So yes spring is a very busy time. Speaking of which I have to go buy some shoes for my recital so I can be presentable!

Update

2009-04-11T12:31:00.000-07:00

Soooo I haven't updated in a while. Sorry about that–it's been busy!
So at the beginning of March, LU concert choir went on our choir tour to Oklahoma City which was pretty awesome. Our choir got standing ovations at both performances and we've received nearly 100 emails from acclaimed choir directors, and i got to see my high school choir director again which was really exciting. We were mostly excited though, to go somewhere that was 75 degrees! So here are some pictures of us at the convention/hanging out in the warmth.

RLA stuff is alright...I miss working with freshmen and I just turned in my application for next year and asked for one of the freshman dorms. But until then I am having some fun programs. For Pi day (3.14) we made pi(e)s which was pretty awesome

As you could see in those pictures earlier, my hair has gotten quite long

...and so today I went and got rid of all of it...new spring haircut!

Also for several reasons I've ended up dropping my B.A in French so I'll be graduating next spring with a B.M in Vocal Performance. I was freaked out about it but then more and more I realized that I'm excited about it. Music was what I planned on doing anyways and the French degree was a safety but actually making it really difficult for me to practice and get enough done for my vocal stuff. I'm going to keep taking French classes though (mostly because I feel so cool when I can sit around reading books in French). So yeah! that's what's going on in my life these days!

Spring break!

2009-04-11T12:04:00.000-07:00

So we went to Memphis! We played a show at Rhodes college and were on the radio, but the recording quality was somewhat awful. If you wanna give us a listen, you can check out our myspace here. We're playing another show on May 3rd and then I need to take a break so I can get all geared up for my recital. But...here are some pictures from our trip!

This is a terribly hard to see picture...but it was the first time Jordan and I saw the St. Louis arch...from the highway...and we wanted to commemorate our massive adventure (it was about a 12 hour drive)

here's the mighty volkswagon that transported us safely from the top to the bottom of the country

We went to Sun Studios which was pretty fantastic. Dan (on the right) was geeking out about all the old recording equipment and took about 25 pictures of microphones with my camera which I have chosen to omit from this entry...

So we also went to the Gibson factory and saw a bunch of guitars getting made. Dan and Jordan were playing with the fancy schmancy guitars...except Jordan tries to play guitars like they're violins :)

you can drive all night and still be at lawrence...
Look! The mighty Mississippi!

Jordan and Beale St!

This was inside this awesome old general store that really hasn't changed much since the 1920s and sold literally everything you could want. it was amaaaazing.
AND IT WAS GREEN! THINGS WERE GROWING!...when we got back to appleton it snowed.

This was us leaving appleton when it was freezing.
And here are some pictures from our gig at Rhodes. I know I'm invisible in the second picture but it's a good shot of the accordion.

Opera opera opera...and Memphis

2009-03-01T20:53:00.000-08:00

Well the opera went quite well. Here's some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

The following weekend it snowed 7 inches in two hours... that was pretty lame. Then my computer was dead but now I have this beautiful new one that I am totally entranced with.

So I might have mentioned this earlier..maybe I didn't. Either way, some friends and I have started playing folky music together and we're going to play shows in Memphis over break and I thought I would take this spot to let you all be exclusive first listeners to our demo...as soon as I get it up. keep watching

Opera Scenes!

2009-02-02T17:16:00.001-08:00

Well the opera scenes list went up today and I got a pretty good one!...I think.... It's a new composition so I can't go listen to it at the library and find out. It's based on the story of Sheherazade though, and I'm going to be playing sheherazade and my friend Derrel is going to be playing the king, and if there's one thing I know about Sherazade it's that sheherazade, it's that she talks all the time which is always a good thing in an opera scene :)

Trivial bits

2009-01-31T12:10:00.001-08:00

Hello,
I'm even sure if people still read this but I'll post a little update anyways :)

I suppose the biggest thing going on with me is that Liam and I broke up a couple weeks ago in a very mutual friendly sort of way. Neither of us is grouchy about it, but it makes school sort of weird since we've been dating nearly the whole time we were at school together. But we're friendly and as proof of that we played Trivia together last weekend.

If you haven't heard of Lawrence's trivia contest...it's a pretty big deal. Teams play from literally all over the world as well as the most hardcore teams that play on campus. Winners receive pretty mild prizes (this year my team won a jar of pickles that we had brought over to the radio station where the contest is held) but hardcore bragging rights for the rest of the year. My team came in second to a team that has been winning forever...and ever...but coming in second was pretty awesome. The game is truly intense- it starts on friday night at 10.00.37pm and continues till the last question is asked on sunday night (this year it ended at 1:30 am) with no stops whatsoever. Friday night I stayed up playing/helping out at the radio station till 8:30 saturday morning...like I said, people get intense.

Sarah's boyfriend and one of my good friends are both Trivia Masters, meaning they wrote the questions and get a total of 8 hours or so of sleep over the whole weekend. (as seen in the picture below where my poor friend Tim passed out in the radio station right before he had to go on air)

One of the "action questions" (where on-campus teams must physically participate in some sort of challenge usually involving dressing up and then a surprise when they arrive at their location) took place during Zombie Hour (a traditional theme hour) which required each team to take ...15 minutes or so to get in full zombie attire and appear at the radio station. When they arrived they were surprised by huge plates of red jell-o for a truly disgusting jell-o eating contest. So of course, who was asked to make 10 boxes of jell-o? why me and Sarah of course (which is why i did NOT volunteer myself for that action question). We enlisted the help of our friend Justin and went to town. I'll spare you pictures of the actual eating contest...

Other action questions included the sad but funny bellyflop contest

and the "Jersey" party, Where trivia crashed a frat party called the Jersey party, where one is supposed to wear their favorite team sports jersey, but the action question called for everyone to dress as the biggest New Jersey stereotype (my team won this action question)

So then trivia was over and everyone who played was in a haze for the rest of the week...Maura and I finished planning our recital program and it's going to be pretty fantastic with a surprise twist at the end ;) I'll write more when I have more to say!

Wintertime!

2009-01-12T17:19:00.000-08:00

Back at school and working hard. Really hard. I'm taking German which is not so much work, and then Music History which is a rather absurd amount of reading nightly, plus the real killer–Introduction to Francophone Literature which is all translating a million loads of reading. Plus the opera is going up at...the end of february? So staging starts tonight!
My friends Dan and Jordan and I started playing folk music, and we've gotten a couple gigs which is exciting so that's the newest thing going on with me.

Also it's full on winter. I went up for a weekend at Bjorklunden (our school's reatreat on Lake Michigan) for a music class and spent more time outside.

For clear lessons-in the last picture on here, everything past those reeds is frozen solid lake michigan.The first time I went out was at like 1:30 am when there was a giant full moon and you could see everything because it reflected so well off the snow...awesome. then liam and I went out the next day with my camera-very cool :D so my winter is exponentially cooler than your winter basically!

Radio Listening Guide

2008-12-03T14:51:00.000-08:00

For your listening pleasure
a mini program with my notes. for reference someone in my studio studies with the same teacher!
featuring the Lawrence University Orchestra, Concert Choir, Cantala, and Viking Chorale.

1.Overture
2.Comfort ye my people-Chris Roebuck (in my voice studio)
3.Ev'ry Valley Shall be Exalted- Alex Gmeinder (singing in my recital!)
4.And the Glory of the Lord
5.Thus Saith the Lord- Stefan Egerstrom
6.But Who May Abide the Day of his Coming- Lacey Benter (sings at my church)
7.Behold a virgin shall concieve/O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion- Maura Cook (in my studio, and the other half of my recital!)
8.For Behold, darkness shall cover the earth/the people that walked in darkness- Chris Besch
9.For Unto us a child is born

10. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
11.There were shepherds abiding in the field etc- Me!
12.Glory to God
13.Rejoice Greatly- Taylor Jacobson (In my studio)

14.Behold the Lamb of God
15.He was Despised-Julie DeBoer
16.Surely he hath Borne our Griefs
17.And with his stripes we are healed
18.Behold and See- Lara Wasserman
19.But thou didst not leave his soul in hell-Rachel Niemann
20. Lift up your heads,O ye gates

INTERMISSION

21.Why do the nations so furiously rage together-Mike Axtell (sings at my church)
22.Let us Break their bonds asunder
23.Thou shalt break them-Alex Gmeinder
24.Hallelujah
25.I know that my redeemer liveth-Sara Brannon
26.Since by man came death
27.Behold I tell you a Mystery/The Trumpet shall sound-Evan Bravos (singing in my recital!)
28.Worthy is the lamb

snow, indians and a recital

2008-11-26T22:32:00.000-08:00

Hmm...I tried to post this a couple days ago but I guess it didn't go through...

So we finally got real snow in Wisconsin the other day. I woke up to an obnoxious scraping sound and was quite annoyed till I realized it was people scraping the 5 inches of snow or so off our porch! It all melted within 2 days but it was temporarily exciting.

Then comes my thanksgiving story: we were in church the other day and time came for the children's sermon. At some point the pastor asked the kids what the pilgrims ate at the first thanksgiving and one girl yells out "INDIANS!" hahaha

Finally, my friend Maura and I just found out our recital date- it will be Saturday, May 23rd at 6:30 pm. So...if you're driving through Appleton you should come see it! It'll be pretty sweet...or you could hold off till next year when I give an hour long recital by myself ;)

gnats

2008-11-14T12:33:00.000-08:00

I got semi finals which is meh. but then I discovered something in the lesson after that that's going to change the way I sing for the better...So recital selection is next week and my recital is going to be aweeesome.

music update

2008-11-05T12:21:00.000-08:00

I got a solo in the Messiah! It's the little bit before Glory to God that starts with "There were shepherds abiding in the field". So that's exciting. Also I'll be going to Whitewater Wisconsin (AKA...nowhere) for NATS this weekend so wish me luck!

garden

2008-10-15T14:42:00.001-07:00

Here's a shot of our actual garden now that I'd mentioned earlier. and there's me in it as proof that I actually do something up here.

Oasis

2008-10-12T09:59:00.000-07:00

Well the opera cast list has gone up. I didn't get the role I wanted, but it turns out they were looking for a different type of voice so I didn't really stand much of a chance. I did get a pseudo part though, I even have a name though I never sing alone. But I am Oasis, a harem girl, who hangs out singing about how attractive people are...but it'll be fun :)

2008-10-01T19:37:00.000-07:00

Well we've had quite a bit of excitement around here thes days. The entire female population and a good chunk of the male population were greatly thrilled when it was announced that THIS guy would be arriving on our campus.
Ah yes, Adam Brody. Star of the O.C, he played an awkward but loveable geek with dry sarcastic humor who captured the heart of many many american girls. And so he came to Lawrence with some model no one knew to toot the horn for Barak Obama.
Sadly he was mostly a disappointment. He showed up with a monster five o clock shadow and an either tired or drunk look about him...which was tolerable but he was pretty weak once he started speaking. I think he encouraged people to volunteer but a lot of people (including me) left fairly early into his speaking because he was such a weak speaker.

Meanwhile ....
Statistics is a tricky tricky thing...the reading makes no sense at all but what we were doing in class today made total sense so that was pretty exciting. German is goin along as per normal, learning about weather...thrilling. I'll update once auditions are done.

Fleet foxes!

2008-09-29T12:26:00.000-07:00

Well I ended up not auditioning for the musical because it would have made my schedule pretty near impossible. but...then I realized that I could go to a concert I wanted to go to! So on the 10th I will be adventuring to the Fleet Foxes concert with Liam. We're also using it as part of our 2 year anniversary adventure. So here's a Fleet Foxes video for anyone who cares

2008-09-28T21:26:00.000-07:00

The first picture here is from RLA training week when we got to put out fires which is always a party. It was unseasonably warm here for a while, being in the 80s during the day and 50s at night but Wisconsin seems to have finally remembered it's fall and gotten cold, just in time for classes. So classes started on wednesday and now I'm up to my eyes in homework from statistics, French Grammar and German.
This weekend was the Concert choir retreat which was made even more awesome by my friend Sarah making choir this year so my two best friends and I are all in the same choir now which makes life fun and easier to plan :). But yes we went on a concert choir retreat to Bjorklunden which was fun as always and great weather!
Some people stole pie...
We had a bonfire sing along

We also took all the mattresses off of the uncomfy bunk beds and made one giant bed in our room. Once we arrived back home, Sarah and I embarked on our first cooking adventure of many to come since we both have tiny meal plans. We made some fancy schmancy mac and cheese which turned out pretty well if I do say so myself. Opera auditions are next week but I'm trying not to get my hopes up as there's only one soprano part and lots and lots of sopranos...

Garden party

2008-09-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

Well training is in it's last day since the freshmen get here tomorrow! Our big theme has been going green this year and so now in the spirit of things, I was working in the garden all day! Lawrence students run their own organic garden (Sustainable Lawrence University Garden- SLUG). I wish I had some pictures of the stuff we picked today but here's another picture of the garden and a pretty eggplant from someone else's garden. Ours were a prettier color though. We also picked six baskets of tomatoes (roma, cherry and normal), 2 large bags of squash, 1 bag of the afore-mentioned eggplants in white and purple, and 2 big buckets of carrots! All of which are now going to our school dining services in a campus wide effort to buy more locally grown and organic food. So that was a lot of fun and I'm hoping to work down there a lot more this year. I'm also hoping to do some ESL tutoring and teach intro French at the same school I taught music theory at my freshman year. So... a busy and exciting year ahead! Lots of auditions coming up but I managed to squeeze in a lesson with my voice teacher Mrs Bozeman last week so I feel on point. More updating to come!

Escuela!

2008-09-10T16:24:00.001-07:00

my room! i have a wall full of built in shelves and a fancy two paneled curtains. But here are some pictures anyways. Training started today and was a lot of fun and it's nice to see everyone who's back. Also my voice teacher is giving me a lesson on friday even though classes haven't started yet! yay Junior year! The third picture is the view from my window.

heading back

2008-09-05T09:44:00.000-07:00

Well it's about time to head back to school. Assuming hurricane Hanna doesn't rain me out. I fly back on sunday though so hopefully everything will be better by then. Anyways here's my address for the upcoming year.

Molly Wilson
Room 107
733 East Alton St.
Appleton, WI 54911

There's RA training for a week, then a week with just the freshmen then all the rest of the students move in and craziness ensues. But I'll post pictures of my room as soon as it's nice and organized. More posts once I have more to talk about which is essentially when school starts!

summertime photoplosion

2008-08-15T18:38:00.001-07:00

Summertime...means adventures on the farm. a couple farms actually. First Liam came to visit for a weekend and he had been reading the Omnivore's Dilemma and realized one of the farms mentioned in the book was about an hour away. So we journeyed to Polyface farm in Staunton (inexplicably pronounced Stanton) and saw many a chicken and lovely Virginia view.

And then some carmen pictures, mostly from rehearsals

That last picture is of the three mollys who worked on the production. we were all sort of surprised to find so many other mollys...

And then sometimes as interns we had to visit another farm. A much wealthier horse farm that rents the company a barn to keep all our stuff in. So me and my fellow intern spent a lot of time doing nothing special up there...and taking pictures of it.

and thus ends the photoplosion.

Like a back issue but in video form

2008-08-01T12:17:00.000-07:00

Well here are some old videos. just so they're all in one spot I suppose.

First video is excerpts from Schubert's Mass in G with the First Congregational Church of Appleton, WI Choir

The second is Sposa Son Disprezzata from my studio class

and okay actually I only had two videos so enjoy!

Moving day!

2008-08-01T10:23:00.000-07:00

I figured it's about time I moved on from livejournal which generally hosts overemotional tweens venting about not getting cars for their super sweet sixteens. So new hosting site, new layout, it's just excitement all around today!

Anyways, so the Ash Lawn Opera season is starting to draw to an end but I figured I should post some pictures for those of you who weren't able to make it to the show, or those of you who did but just want to stare at some pictures.

Anyways here are some loverly pictures of assorted scenes. Enjoy! Oh, at some point I'll be moving all those videos over to this site to simplify any searching you may want to do.

Well after much tragedy of realizing I left my camera cord in Wisconsin, I had to order a new one from Hong Kong. Of course once it finally came, I left it in Richmond...but it's coming up with mom tomorrow so soon I'll post my own pictures from the show, as well as Liam's visit which mostly was an adventure to a farm in the middle of nowhere Virginia and whatever else I took pictures of...alrighty then. Keep checking here! Change your bookmarks!