If left to my own devices – no job or early morning commitments – I'd be up most nights until dawn. I'm a night person. I like the solitude. I like the stillness. I like the wrap-around black coziness and the inky-black eeriness; the disconnectedness that sometimes leads to hidden and surprising insights to my soul. Perhaps, these insights were there all along, submerged below the surface of my daytime consciousness – unable to break through because of the noise and clutter of everyday life. I don't know. What I do know is that those niggling, back of the brain feelings ignored during the day because I'm too busy or too pre-occupied, break out full blown at night. The solution to problems, so unanswerable during the day, becomes obvious and self-evident at night. Thoughts and feelings, long ago forgotten become unforgotten. At night, all things seem possible. The line between reality and dream; conscious and sub-conscious thin and fade in those late-night hou...
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I also got thinking about how contratenors are trying to reach the power and heights that the castratis supposedly reached in music. They say that now that we know so much more about the body, some are approaching those standards today.
KD seems to have reached a very fine balance between her masculine and feminine sides to produce an incredible level of performance.
Thanks for this, El. And hope you understand what i am trying to say.
I've also enjoyed her jazz interpretations and performances when I've seen them in videos and on TV.
-Charlie