My first post! (Sara)

Hello, Seraphic Fire fans!

Welcome to the Seraphic Fire blog! I am excited to be the guinea pig singer blogger and promise to give you all of the inside lowdown. Well, all that's fit to print, at least...!

We're less that two weeks out from rehearsal time, and I'm really excited for this concert. I've only sung with Seraphic Fire since last fall and I've never experienced doing just one work on one of our concerts - should be a lot of fun.

We always spend time in rehearsals trying to find our "sound" for the week, and that often proves to be challenging when we have multiple composers from different time periods on the docket. Our sound for singing Tallis, for example, will be totally different than our sound for a premiere of a new work by Paul Crabtree. In addition, the cast of singers may slightly differ from concert to concert, so it's a constant process. There is fun and skill in that challenge, of course, but on the rare occasions when we sing the work of just one composer (like last fall's Scarlatti concert, for example), it's nice to lock in to that sound early in the week.

Dido and Aeneas is such a beautiful piece and it will be a treat to sing with this group. I've missed them all summer! We'll see how my body handles going from living in an elevation of 6,000 ft to spending a week at sea level!