Thursday, January 29, 2009

I'm a singer, I like to sing opera

So, this past weekend was the Syracuse Student Opera Company's performance of the Mikado featuring past Artistic Director of Syracuse Opera, Richard McKee as the Mikado. The run was a total success and everybody that saw it gave us rave reviews. The Syracuse University student paper, the Daily Orange, gave us a great review after our run was over and it was wonderful seeing how they appreciated our work. The Syracuse Post Standard gave us a review after our first show on Saturday morning. It was so nice seeing an actual paper give us a review and talk about individual performances like we were professionals. It's a good view about how our professional careers could turn out. This opera has taken over my life lately, but I will have more posts in time.
Peace.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Getting to know Gyasi!

Hi, my name is Gyasi and I'm a Sophomore Music Education major from Teaneck, NJ. Since Teaneck is about five minutes outside of New York City, I had a lot of cultural and musical influence while I was growing up and that enhanced my knowledge about music and the arts. When I first started looking at schools, I wanted to go to Syracuse because of the great reputation and the fact that the teachers were unlike those at conservatories that I applied to. The teachers had the student's improvement in mind with a warm and caring aura about them. When I got into Syracuse, I was so excited to come here and I was immediately positive that I had made the right choice.