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almaviva90I feel like I'm living the life of an insomniac hermit this past week. I haven't gone out for about 4-5 days straight. and my internal body-clock has definitely been messed up...waking up in the late afternoon after getting to sleep around 6-8 in the morning. -__-
But the bloody problem is that no matter how much I want to (and force myself to) sleep at what are considered normal sleeping hours; I can't. Grr...well, I won't pretend that I don't know why I'm behaving like this...alas, a bout of mild depression has settled in again and I can't seem to shake it off. This bout is definitely the longest one I've had so far and what really isn't helping to get my spirits up is that HKU starts in 2-3 weeks.
So to combat this I'm just going to overwhelm myself with music...Purcell's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary is sort of helping...the finale ('See Nature, rejoicing') of this wonderful Baroque piece is quite uplifting. It's been a while since I've listened to Baroque music after listening to a lot of Mozart operas. It's amazing that only about 70 ish years separate Baroque operas to Mozart ones and yet the sound/tone seem quite different. But I can definitely say that baroque stuff is not easy to sing with a very considerable number of trills to do...probably the most difficult period to sing for professional singers. So the apparent ease with which Flott and TA sing these pieces is astonishing.
But the bloody problem is that no matter how much I want to (and force myself to) sleep at what are considered normal sleeping hours; I can't. Grr...well, I won't pretend that I don't know why I'm behaving like this...alas, a bout of mild depression has settled in again and I can't seem to shake it off. This bout is definitely the longest one I've had so far and what really isn't helping to get my spirits up is that HKU starts in 2-3 weeks.
So to combat this I'm just going to overwhelm myself with music...Purcell's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary is sort of helping...the finale ('See Nature, rejoicing') of this wonderful Baroque piece is quite uplifting. It's been a while since I've listened to Baroque music after listening to a lot of Mozart operas. It's amazing that only about 70 ish years separate Baroque operas to Mozart ones and yet the sound/tone seem quite different. But I can definitely say that baroque stuff is not easy to sing with a very considerable number of trills to do...probably the most difficult period to sing for professional singers. So the apparent ease with which Flott and TA sing these pieces is astonishing.
