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2024 Holiday Choral Concert with Cantus Panamá
My second choral concert!
Grateful to Cantus Panamá for welcoming me into their choir.
We sang beautiful music at a church. I’m not particularly religious, but singing that music, I went, “Yes, I get it.”
This has been the greatest ear training of my life. I remember barely being able to match pitch when singing a melody, and now I’m able to stay on my harmony line while other singers around me sing the melody and other harmony parts. Too cool!
Looking forward to more choral singing. I think I’ll sing in choirs for the rest of my life, or so I hope.
Voces Literarias de Panamá: Manny Vallarino (Producido por Halley y el Panama American Center)
¡Mil gracias al Halley Library y al Panama American Center por invitarme a dar esta entrevista sobre mi vida literaria y mi libro Bebé azul!
Esta entrevista se dio antes de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Panamá, edición 2023.
Lo único que ha cambiado desde entonces, en lo que al video respecta, es que ya no uso Instagram (¡no usarlo me ha hecho mucho bien!).
Bebé azul, gugu gaga.
Carnegie Mellon University Podcast Interview: Scotty Stories
Thank you to the Carnegie Mellon University Career & Professional Development Center and to the host of Scotty Stories, Neville Scott, for inviting me to do a fun, engaging interview.
We talk about life, creativity, and commerce.
By the way, Neville is a great interviewer. Such great questions, and a voice made for podcasting. And he’s a gifted musician, to boot. Cool guy.
Lessons in Singing from My First Choral Concert
On June 9, 2024, I sang in my first ever choral concert.
I joined this particular choir, Cantus Panamá, in February of 2024.
What an experience! And what an education.
Here are some lessons I learned from my first experience rehearsing and performing with a choir:
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