James N. aka jamesn
Aug 11, 2016 18:11:24 GMT
Post by jamesn on Aug 11, 2016 18:11:24 GMT
Greetings and Felicitations to All!
I think I've at least visited here before, and thought I'd actually registered before, but I guess not. I'm currently a fugitive from the now-defunct Jackie Evancho ProBoards site, and that's where my principal interests lie; however, I'm not really a stranger to at least Classical music, which I discovered long ago. I was fortunate to live in the Dallas, Texas Metroplex where I could enjoy their official city radio station WRR/101.1 which is a classical station amid the plethora of rock, country, soul, rap, etc., etc. ad nauseum. Now very long ago I used to attend regularly performances of both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Opera at the Fair Park Music Hall. I even followed the DSO to their new digs at the Meyerson Symphony Center in the then-new Arts District in downtown Dallas, but had given that up untill, as you may remember, the Meyerson became one of the very first venues for Jackie when she began touring. I saw her there for the very first time August 31, 2011, exactly a year after one of her landmark performances on America's Got Talent singing Con Te Partiro. Since then, I have attended thirteen additional concerts and PBS filmings by Jackie, the last just a month ago.
I like to say I'm possibly the only one of Jackie's fans who has actually been IN an opera, even though I can't carry a tune in the proverbial bucket - although she's no longer much identified with (to use one of her favorite words) that particular genre. That occurred back around 1986 or 87 when I worked one season with the Dallas Opera as a spear-carrier (the opera term for a non-singing extra) in productions of La Sonambula, Rigoletto, and my favorite (to work) Andrea Chenier. Later, I got to work as armorer in two different productions, one by Dallas Opera and the other by the Fort Worth Opera, of Tosca where it was my duty to provide and maintain the muskets with which the firing squad/chorus members shoot the tenor! I also got to instruct them in how to handle and fire the actual working firearms and how to "shoot" him without actually aiming at him, very important to one tenor who had actually been shot by wadding in a previous performance!
My music preferences tend to run to classical/orchestral and Jackie is the first performer whose career I've ever "followed", though within the past couple of years I've also attended a concert by that other star of reality TV, Susan Boyle, which I enjoyed greatly. That was at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall, the first and only time I've been there. I've also recently been getting acquainted with the early work of that proto-Jackie Classical Crossover pioneer, Charlotte Church, through both CD's and DVD's of her performances and by reading her two autobiographies.
I think I've at least visited here before, and thought I'd actually registered before, but I guess not. I'm currently a fugitive from the now-defunct Jackie Evancho ProBoards site, and that's where my principal interests lie; however, I'm not really a stranger to at least Classical music, which I discovered long ago. I was fortunate to live in the Dallas, Texas Metroplex where I could enjoy their official city radio station WRR/101.1 which is a classical station amid the plethora of rock, country, soul, rap, etc., etc. ad nauseum. Now very long ago I used to attend regularly performances of both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Opera at the Fair Park Music Hall. I even followed the DSO to their new digs at the Meyerson Symphony Center in the then-new Arts District in downtown Dallas, but had given that up untill, as you may remember, the Meyerson became one of the very first venues for Jackie when she began touring. I saw her there for the very first time August 31, 2011, exactly a year after one of her landmark performances on America's Got Talent singing Con Te Partiro. Since then, I have attended thirteen additional concerts and PBS filmings by Jackie, the last just a month ago.
I like to say I'm possibly the only one of Jackie's fans who has actually been IN an opera, even though I can't carry a tune in the proverbial bucket - although she's no longer much identified with (to use one of her favorite words) that particular genre. That occurred back around 1986 or 87 when I worked one season with the Dallas Opera as a spear-carrier (the opera term for a non-singing extra) in productions of La Sonambula, Rigoletto, and my favorite (to work) Andrea Chenier. Later, I got to work as armorer in two different productions, one by Dallas Opera and the other by the Fort Worth Opera, of Tosca where it was my duty to provide and maintain the muskets with which the firing squad/chorus members shoot the tenor! I also got to instruct them in how to handle and fire the actual working firearms and how to "shoot" him without actually aiming at him, very important to one tenor who had actually been shot by wadding in a previous performance!
My music preferences tend to run to classical/orchestral and Jackie is the first performer whose career I've ever "followed", though within the past couple of years I've also attended a concert by that other star of reality TV, Susan Boyle, which I enjoyed greatly. That was at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall, the first and only time I've been there. I've also recently been getting acquainted with the early work of that proto-Jackie Classical Crossover pioneer, Charlotte Church, through both CD's and DVD's of her performances and by reading her two autobiographies.