Cyndia Sieden<\/a> was singing that most gorgeous and time-stopping aria (the one that goes up to a super high D) from Carmina Burana.\u00c2\u00a0 She had just done the slow scale up to the high D, and was at the pause before the phrase ended, and the whole hall was silent: you could have heard a pin drop – she was sounding phenomenal, and everyone didn’t want the spell to be broken, and she turned to Carlos with a slightly helpless look on her face: she’d forgotten the last six notes of the aria!\u00c2\u00a0 Of course Carlos cracked up, followed by the orchestra, Cyndia, and the entire chorus.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a nice moment in an otherwise hard-working rehearsal session.<\/p>\nI was a bit out of it for the first part of the rehearsal as I’d decided that riding my bike to work on an 85 degree evening would be fun (plus my wife had the car).\u00c2\u00a0 It was hot and I didn’t drink enough water along the way, so I was in a bit of a daze for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 I also learned that riding with my viola on my back is a deal-breaker: the top of the case hits the back of my helmet so I have to keep my head way down to ride.\u00c2\u00a0 Bummer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had one of those priceless moments tonight during our evening rehearsal (our first with the Portland Symphonic choir for this series) – Soprano Cyndia Sieden was singing that most gorgeous and time-stopping aria (the one that goes up to a super high D) from Carmina Burana.\u00c2\u00a0 She had just done the slow scale up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,283,135,2],"tags":[3664],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-opera-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":966,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/13\/carmina-burana-cheat-sheet\/","url_meta":{"origin":972,"position":0},"title":"carmina burana cheat sheet","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"C'mon - you know you've thought of this, too...","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":947,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/29\/oso-carmina-burana-going-fast\/","url_meta":{"origin":972,"position":1},"title":"oso carmina burana – going fast!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're interested in attending the last OSO classical series concerts of the season - Messiaen's\u00c2\u00a0 Ascension and Orff's Carmina Burana - on May 17-19, you might wish to get your tickets sooner than later (as in NOW). 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