Music Category
Scrambling before the year ends…
Apr. 28, 2010—The year winds down for the Melodores. NOT. After a crazy successful spring concert last week, we look ahead…to the very near future. NBC’s “Sing Off” auditions are imminently approaching and we are getting ready for them. We are in the process of trying to coordinate everybody from the group to come back to Nashville...
Rains of Spring
Apr. 28, 2010—Rites of Spring was not ideal by anybody’s means…weather-wise. Apparently it has rained for the past two years leading up to this year’s Rites… Between cancellations of bands (yes Passion Pit cancelled on us because of sickness) and delays because of monsoon-like rain, it seemed like things were going to be a disaster. The show...
Post-Concert update on the Melodores
Apr. 23, 2010—This was the big week for the Melodores. We had rehearsal every day leading up to our concert (which was yesterday). Hours and hours of practice finally paid off during our concert, entitled “The Meloship of the Ring.” Many asked if our concert had anything to do with Lord of the Rings and it really...
Results are in! Blair makes strong showing at competition
Mar. 31, 2010—This past weekend, the voice department from the Blair school of music competed in the “Mid-South Regional” NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competition at the host, Lee University in Cleveland, TN. While Blair has a very good reputation in terms of talents in the realm of competitive singing, I had no idea how...
March Madness – On and Off Campus
Mar. 24, 2010—Off campus – the week in review: Everyone’s bracket has been completely destroyed. Who would have called some of these upsets? Vanderbilt basketball… oh well. All is not lost. Yea we lost our chance at playing Kentucky and finally handing their rear ends to them, but in talking with the team last night at Sigma...
Competitive Singing – Not just on American Idol…
Mar. 24, 2010—Big week. On Friday comes the collegiate NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competition where many students from a variety of colleges will be competing against each other in the category of classical voice. Intense, it will be. In pretty excited, I must say, to display my collegiate year’s work in an audition setting...
These Are a Few of My Favorite (Nashville) Things…
Mar. 23, 2010—PART ONE Centennial Park – Right across the street from Vanderbilt is Nashville’s best urban park. It centers around a replica of the Parthenon (with a huge statue of Athena inside, as well as rotating art exhibits) There is a great mile loop around trees and duck ponds for avid runners, and lots of green...
Every Story has Two Sides
Mar. 22, 2010—Vanderbilt is a campus of wonders and amazement, but we are a very two-faced campus when it comes to certain things. The weather and music scene are two of the more meaningful and important dichotomies that exist on campus!
Looking Ahead
Mar. 11, 2010—I just got my tickets to the Vanderbilt Rites of Spring festival today. If you haven’t already heard about it, we host a yearly spring festival (In mid-April) featuring the biggest artists in the world. To name a few, we have in this year’s lineup: Drake, Ben Harper and the Relentless 7, Phoenix, Passion Pit,...
The Soundtrack to “A Typical Vandy Week”
Feb. 3, 2010—I don’t know about y’all (yeah yeah I’m your resident southern belle blogger…) but I sometimes wish that there was music playing in the background of my life everyday. Don’t lie… you know you’ve thought about it too. Well I decided to thoroughly search through my iTunes library to find the perfect soundtrack to my...