Thursday in Paris, and I'm setting up my new site to make it easier for students to find out about lessons and contact me... The house has just had a spring (fall) cleaning to make up for the months it sat without us and now I'm getting down to my workspace/studio in the basement... months of dust and a cracked pipe have left a fair bit of mould in the air. Hopefully the patch I set in will stop the drips and the space will dry out...
I'm doing a lot of rehearsal for the Brel show that's opening up in five weeks... some amazing songs to sing and the director: Tracy Darin is giving us some simple, and very effective staging for them: some highlights I get to sing are In the Port of Amsterdam, Statue and Next. It's been great to throw myself into a new project so soon after finishing 'Driving Back to Vegas' and the french chanson tradition is so different from the Jazz Standards that Frank sang. Even though 'Jaques Brel is Alive and Well' is essentially a broadway revue channelling the chanson tradition...
