Back to Business

NYU is back in session for the second half of spring semester-- wow! Where did the time go?

Some exciting highlights of the last few weeks:

• Mixtapes competed in the ICCA Northeast Semifinals on March 22! We unfortunately didn't place and won't continue on in the competition but we had the amazing opportunity to perform in the beautiful space that is Boston Symphony Hall, which is an experience I'll never forget.
• Auditioned at the New England Theatre Conference beginning of spring break. I auditioned for over thirty different theater companies from the northeast and was called back for two. Still waiting to hear back from these companies.
• Was asked to perform in First Stages again this year and started rehearsing the piece yesterday. It's a student-written choral piece and I'm singing alto 2, which is an interesting challenge for me. I'm nowhere near an alto 2, and it's a lower range of my voice, but luckily it's not too low for me to manage. We perform the piece on Friday at 8 pm.
• Mixtapes are holding elections next week for Executive Board and various chair positions for next year. I plan on running for chair of Social Media.
• Saw my friends and fellow vocal performance students perform in the new work Beatsville this past weekend--so good! 
• Continuing to apply for endless amounts of internships in the hope of staying in New York over the summer. Waiting to hear back from the 6+ internships I've applied to. Have meeting with career counselor at NYU on Friday afternoon. 

Concert Weekend!

Sorry about the lateness of this post, school's been crazy with midterms coming up. But this past weekend was our first concert of the spring! We performed two new songs, two old songs, and we performed our ICCA set. We also officially announced that the Mixtapes will be competing in the ICCA Northeast Semifinals in Boston on March 22! A lot of people knew already, if they were friends with any of the Mixtapes, but we made an official public announcement at the concert. But other than that, the concert was a lot of fun! We had a smaller crowd than usual but it was nice, it was a more intimate concert. Lexi came, as well as Gabrielle, which was sweet of them. We had the Bryn Mawr Night Owls open for us, they're an all-female group from just outside of Philly. They were nice girls, but at our party afterwards they weren't very social with us, it was very much segregated between the Tapes and the Night Owls, but it was fine.



Here's a link to two of our songs that we did, "Blank Space" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?":

"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNKHIrnRj0

"Blank Space"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASYM0LrnY4s

Concert prep!

The Mixtapes are gearing up for their first spring concert on March 7th! Our theme is MARCH of the Penguins (we're a very punny group). We're singing two new arrangements, two songs from past semesters, and our ICCA set (complete with choreography!). We're still learning some of our set but I know we'll be ready come concert time. Sadly three of our members won't be at the concert due to other conflicts, so we're going to have to re-choreograph the ICCA set a bit to account for the missing bodies.

I'm on decorating committee again (this time my friend Jerry and I are co-chairing, I think). The theme is March of the Penguins but I don't know if we're going to take the theme literally and put penguins and that sort of stuff around as our decorations, or if we're going to take it in a different direction. Our dress code for the event is essentially a tuxedo look: black on bottom, white shirt, and black blazer. I'm hoping we go with the tuxedo idea for the decorations because I personally wasn't a fan of the March of the Penguins theme, I definitely didn't vote for that. BUT our next concert is going to be Murder Mystery/Dinner Theatre themed which I'm very excited for.


ALSO! There's a video up of our ICCA performance, here's the link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW7QXwkUUJ0