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PERRYMAN VOICE STUDIO: REQUIRED LIVE ASSIGNMENT 

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2022  MPC 7-9PM

ASSIGNMENT:  Your required class assignment will be live next week.  We will be doing a mock jury.  This jury is in place of your regular lesson time. This mandatory meeting will be in MPC with all of Prof. Perryman’s voice students from 7-9pm.  We will be meeting with Professor LaMotte’s studio voice students as well.

VOCAL JURY:  A vocal jury is an end of the semester performance by a voice student for a panel of voice faculty.  Students prepare 2 contrasting pieces from lessons preferably standard art song repertoire. You’ll be judged on intonation, diction, vowels, breath support, artistry, pronunciation, and overall presentation.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING:  You will present one of your pieces memorized that you will be singing for the semester jury.  You will be given a grade and constructive feedback from Professor Perryman and Professor LaMotte.  When you are not singing, you will listen to other students perform.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING:  You will need come to our class with:

1.  Your music binder, ready for the pianist, Giovanni Longo
2.  A completed jury sheet plus 2 copies; see example. (You list both semester pieces but will sing just one)

WHAT WILL YOU WEAR:  Dress or dress slacks/shirt (choose classic style/it shouldn’t distract.)  Your hair should be away from the face.  Wear shoes that are dressy but you are able to sing in (no gym shoes or flip flops.)

JURY SHEET:    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QumWT20fO-2vF7F3SaIOTsr_4zCHTCQn/view?usp=sharing 

Wagner College Department of Music – Vocal Jury Rubric 

To Be Completed by Student 

SEMESTER: Fall 2022 Date:10.26.22 (Mock Jury)    

NAME: Liz Perryman              

VOICE TYPE: Dramatic Soprano

DEGREE CONCENTRATION (check all that apply): 

        Music (BA)

        X Performance (BA)

        Music Scholarship 

APPLIED INSTRUCTOR: Andrea DelGiudice       

ACADEMIC STANDING: FR1 FR2 SO1 SO2 JR1 JR2 SR1 SR2 

SELECTIONS FOR JURY PRESENTATION.  (List by title/composer)

       “Love’s Philosophy” Roger Quilter

        “Die Mainnacht” Johannes Brahms

REPERTOIRE STUDIED (but not prepared for jury evaluation this semester.)

        “Pace Pace Mio Dio” Giuseppe Verdi 

        “Es Gibt Ein Reich” Richard Strauss 

“Il Est Doux, Il Est Bon” Jules Massenet

The last phone call I had with my dad was on a pay phone at the LSU theater. It was Sunday night before magic flute tech week and my metropolitan opera regional finals. I was tired and stressed. Dad and I chatted. He told me he wasn’t going to audition for Leperello in Don Giovanni with a chicago group. I was annoyed. He was so good on stage. I told him I loved him and asked to speak to Janet Perryman. I sure wish it would have been a better call as he would suddenly pass away the next morning playing the organ at the church of the ascension. The hospital acronym DOA still makes me cringe. I miss you dearly my exuberant, intense, and loving Dad. I hope you’re chatting up Tarnia Van Zitters and Cara Shlau and excited to meet the lovely Steven Updegraff (Jessica Updegraff) also gone way too soon.

Favorite quote for Dad:

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill

WAWA FOR THE WIN

Voice lessons:

1. Often technical but some acquire solid technique through imagery. 
2. Filled with colorful vocabulary which may sound odd to vocal civilians. 
3. Becomes an emotional chapter 11 for many as we are our instrument case. 
4. Needs an open and fluid mindset throughout the seasons of life. 
5. Combines a magical mixture of the metaphysical and physiological. 
6. The more you learn, the more natural it sounds. 
7. Success may come from the sound of one’s favorite convenience store, WAWA.

Wait…..WHAT THE?

So yeah. Tonight my voice student and I worked on conjuring the dormant dark side of her Italian vowels. Little did we know when she spoke about her favorite wawa sandwich, the word “Wawa” would be a vocal elixir. 

Technically speaking, we found more connection between her open and closed vowels through embouchure release, vowel modification, soft palate lift, and the implementation of the soprano vault (dome/inner oval/vomitato/bite the apple blah blah blah). 

When this sharp collegiate (who is a joy to teach) sang in the space of saying the word wawa, her voice released and found more warmth. 

My own voice teacher aka “voice whisperer” speaks of the hoot action which really resonated with right brained moi. This sensation and direction really helped my Italianate sound this past year.

All of this to say, discoveries can come from anywhere with an open mind. I have had a village of teachers who have filled my big throat tapestry bag with tools from ng to hoot action. I am grateful to have the opportunity to share. 

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As singers/performers, one of the items we always need to have ready to go is the essential black binder. In addition to our auditions and performances, you never know when you will need your music binder.  I always have one with me and in my car.  

Prepare below for your lesson on Wednesday October 19th.

1. Black binder/non glossy or with plastic covering (my preference is the 1 inch binder.)
2. Label the spine with your name and email (always good in case it is lost.)
3. Make two copies of your music for this semester (one for you and one for your accompanist.)
4. Make sure it is clean without missing notes and double sided.  No staples. Pianists are particular and will appreciate a neat binder.
5. 3 hole punch and put the music in the binder.
6. Label clearly the names of the pieces either by tabs or dividers.
7. If it is a 2 page song, it should open like a book; pages facing each other. There should not be a page turn.
8. Make sure to keep a pencil in the binder.
9. Make sure to have all cuts and starting/ends spots marked clearly if applicable.
10. You may want to have a table of contents with the titles with pieces by numbers so you can easily switch them out if you need to change pieces in the folder. Feel free to be creative as long as the binder has 2 clear copies legible for the pianist. I also keep an extra headshot and resume in my binder just in case.

National coming out day 2022

1. Me scared of my shadow in a home of big personalities. 😂 Neal F. Perryman
2. Thankful to find my people in theater and church youth group.
3. Often not feeling it with too many guys but going along with society prescription.
4. Letting down my hair in colleges and learning a lot.
5. Hey Mom, I’m a homo. Janet Perryman
6. Finding Eliz. Elizabeth Honer
7. Living out loud. Giddy up.

My work eating style: task
My home eating style: emotional/task
My social eating style: emotional

#braintrain #noomtherapy #noom

Books:

In elementary school, I told my parents I wanted to be a waitress when I grew up. During the angsty decade of adolescence, I continually pondered “who am I” and told my parents I would definitely NOT be a music teacher. Then I tried it with Donna Budil and liked it. So I had to admit to them I was wrong. A year before my father passed, I told him I didn’t want to teach college. He always wanted to teach college voice but it can be challenging to find open positions. He found his wonderful legacy with his junior high and church choir. And now, I’m teaching part time at a college and I am loving it. So it was sentimental to see my name plate tonight. I sure haven’t always known how things will turn out but I am glad for the grace. Oh yeah, there was also that gay thing I didn’t realize until my Jack Benny age…… #loveyoudad #jackbenny39

My usual approach in life has historically been to power through and rest later. Sometimes it works out. When my dad passed in 2001, it was 4 weeks before my DMA recital. I powered through, did a recital he would have been proud of, and passed out at the table when we were at dinner after the recital. Patrice Boudreaux Alice Hebert Boudreaux Janet Perryman. As of 9.2.2022, I’m starting to process life since March 8, 2020 more fully; more dawned on me today. I have noticed (even in 2 days) how much more alert and bright eyed the students are this September in contrast to last September (after a year and a half of mostly virtual learning.) I am grateful for health and strength during during the pandemic. It didn’t always occur to me how difficult things were the past 2.5 years. I had the full steam ahead; make the best of it mindset. I am glad for a return to living life more fully. #20222023schoolyear