MT workshop with Brent Wagner

<p>Thanks! D got an email from Lisa yesterday and she will be faxing the song to her today. Looking forward to meeting you there!</p>

<p>So what are the songs your daughters have been asked to prepare if you don't mind sharing, Melsmom and Monsterof M? Are they fairly obscure songs?</p>

<p>My D's song is "Remember" by Irving Berlin (1925). I think it was from There's No Business Like Show Business (movie? stage musical?). Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Seems pretty obscure to me. Their only direction was to learn the music, but not listen to any recordings. It should be an interesting weekend (we have to fit the prom in there, too!).</p>

<p>My daughter is going to the workshop. Her song is "Part of Your World" by Alan Menken from The little Mermaid. She is very excited and looking forward to the weekend.</p>

<p>Thanks for sharing. I would call Berlin's "Remember" pretty obscure, too, but "Part of Your World" isn't really. Good luck with fitting the prom in on the same weekend! What a challenge! I'd love to hear your observations after the workshop.</p>

<p>I was told there are a few less obscure songs this time around. My daughter got Rumble Rumble Rumble by Frank Loesser, I have no idea if it's from a show or not, but it is hilarious. </p>

<p>We're also trying to find it in a different key, so if you happen to know this song and have a copy of it, please let me know! I can't find it at any of the online sheet music sites.</p>

<p>Momster, that's a really fun song. It might be available as part of a Loesser songbook. You might try the Smithsonian if you can't find it anywhere else.</p>

<p>It is in the Loesser Songbook but probably in the key they gave you. Sometimes here music stores can transpose sheet music for you if they have it in their system. Good luck!</p>

<p>It IS in the Loesser songbook, and that's where we got one copy; they also faxed a copy, but it's not too legible, it's handwritten.</p>

<p>That's why I was hoping to find it online, we could transpose before printing.</p>

<p>I can also put it into my music software and transpose it, I was just trying to find an easier way! But, if I can't find it, I will probably just do it myself.</p>

<p>Momster, it so happens that Rumble Rumble Rumble was my D's BFA audition song for schools that required a pre 1960 song, and so Brent Wagner heard my D sing it. My D sang this song at age 9 in a musical revue of Frank Loesser's music called Perfectly Frank. Normally, I'd have trouble getting you music as my D's music is all in NYC. However, we just moved her stuff home (she is not home yet though) and there are piles upon piles of her belongings all around me. I likely could find it and if you email me at <a href="mailto:SoozieVT@aol.com">SoozieVT@aol.com</a>, I could arrange to fax it to you. Unlike the Blue Hair thread, I prefer that no other requests be sent to me but I will give it to you MomsterofM. I can't tell you about the songbook as that is not where my D got it. She got the music from someone in NYC several years ago and not from a book.</p>

<p>PS....while this song is in the Loesser revue, Perfectly Frank, he originally wrote it for the movie, Perils of Pauline.</p>

<p>Talking about this song is bringing back funny memories. When my D did this solo at age nine in the show, they dressed her in a man's hat and then fit a man's suit jacket to her size but it was to her thigh like a dress and the rest was legs and her shiny patent leather tap shoes. And in some of the interludes, she tapped on top of these minature pianos that were downstage with a boy sitting as if playing it (kinda like imagine that character in Peanuts). LOL And so very recently, when I was visiting her in NYC to see her perform at Lincoln Center, and she was wearing a short dress and it was cold that night and I was staying at her apartment and she came back from all the "post performance celebrations" and walked in with her BF's tux jacket on that covered her dress and the rest was all legs and so she joked, "I know what you are thinking...I look just like when I was nine and performing Rumble Rumble Rumble" and she did. :D</p>

<p>So how was the workshop this weekend?</p>

<p>In case anyone missed it last year I saw that Brent Wagner (U of Michigan head of MT) is coming back to the Professional School for the Arts, in Torrance, CA, for another Artist in Residence weekend.
The 20 very intense hours will take place Memorial Day weekend, and spots are at a premium so there is an audition that takes place on Feb 21, 2009 or you can audition by DVD.
My daughter, who is now a senior, went last year and found the one-on-one time she got to spend with Mr. Wagner to be priceless.
For more information go to [url=<a href="http://www.psarts.com/classes/%5DProfessional"&gt;http://www.psarts.com/classes/]Professional&lt;/a> School for the Arts - Torrance, California<a href="it%20is%20about%203/4%20of%20the%20way%20down%20the%20page">/url</a>.</p>

<p>If anyone is interested - Brent Wagner (head of MT at UMichigan) is doing this Workshop again in Torrance, CA. It will take place Memorial Day weekend - May 28 - 30. Auditions are Saturday, Feb.27th. You can audition by DVD, but of course they prefer a live audition.</p>

<p>All the details are on the website for Professional School for the Arts ([Professional</a> School for the Arts - Torrance, California](<a href=“http://www.psarts.com%5DProfessional”>http://www.psarts.com)), including the requirements for the audition. And you can call for more information, Lisa is who you will talk to and her number is on the website as well.</p>

<p>My daughter did the workshop twice, once as a sophomore and again her senior year. It’s a very good experience, very worthwhile.</p>