What should I get my sister for christmas? She is about to graduate in voice performance...?

Question

she will be going to graduate school next year for voice performance. I was thinking a recording she should have or a book that might help her learn about auditions, etc. Any Ideas?

Answer 1

A new larynx...

Answer 2

there are a lot of good books on singing out there, but doubtless she has a lot of those already. If you can, make a list of her library, and then go to your favorite "on-lin" bookstore to see what they have that's different than what she has. They are pretty pricey, so be prepared for a shock.
Here are two books that I think should be on every singer's shelf:
Voice, The Mechanism and the Technique, by Dr. William Vennard
Training the Soprano Voice, by Richard Miller.
( okay, training the tenor voice for guys)
Janet Wilson has a book/CD on how to have a great audition technique, and it's fairly recent, so your sister might not have that one yet.
If these prices are too much, then sheet music, as the gentleman suggested.
you are a sweetheart for thinking of your sister so.
Best wishes to all of you for a very happy holiday.

Answer 3

You have a difficult job, meine freunde.
Try giving her a gift certificate from a local music store, and don't be cheap. Vocal performers have a really uncertain future ahead. The best thing you can do is an unconditional support of her decision to be a performer, and go to listen to her wherever she performs.
Other than that, try asking her for suggestions.
I'll tell you what. Buy her all three keys of the Malotte 'Lord's Prayer' sheet music. It's available in C. Db, and Eb. She will doubtlessly be asked to perform it sometime in her career, and I guarantee you she will love you for it. It also shows her you know something about music. Get the sheet music for voice and organ, they each should be about six dollars.
Trust me, she'll love it.

Answer 4

enable's be elementary: maximum folk graduated from track conservatoires (even from the final ones) paintings as instrumental instructors or in a mix of coaching paintings and a few sort of track overall performance. There at the instant are not many musicians working basically as performers. it truly is suitable to piano majors, besides the certainty that pianists could specialise in korrepetition/vocal guidance, chamber track... it is extra troublesome for singers. Singers could connect an opera or church/cathedral choir, yet maximum choirs (even those appearing with substantial orchestras) are created from novice singers or various smaller choirs. Opera choirs interior the German equipment (repertoire equipment) are created from expert singers (employed finished time) who must be very versatile singers able to making a track different operas with little prepare consultation each and each week. although many opera choir singers additionally coach privately to get an added. i think of making a track and composition are the two maximum confusing aspects to locate jobs/gigs/employment in. in case you could play piano properly, and can sing, i think of Korrepetition/répétiteur/vocal guidance may be a brilliant expert determination. -------- @ mamianka : I comprehend what you mean, yet i think of it is worth doing a track overall performance degree. through the way I never had a scholar till I in part retired 2 years in the past as a results of an motor vehicle twist of destiny, it did not take me long in the previous I had to cease taking scholars as a results of loss of time. deepest coaching isn't undesirable, even though it relies upon on the place you reside and the place you seem on your scholars.

Answer 5

I think that you can get her microphone that records her voice and let her play over or a cd player.

Answer 6

just a thought but maybe a Renee Flemming CD, I looove how she sings "Quando me n'vo"

Answer 7

i've always loved bizet's "carmen". beautiful vocals.