http://davidnewman.info Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:22:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm pleased to have a great summer music festival, the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, right here in my own back yard. I'm singing a couple concerts with them this season, which are coming up next week. On Friday, June 13, I'll be singing Eugene Friesen's "Good Providence" with the festival orchestra. ... http://davidnewman.info/2008/06/07/shenandoah-valley-bach-festival/ We've had some rainy weather recently, but the last couple days have been just beautiful. I've been enjoying the outdoors and having the windows open while indoors. Taxes are now out of the way, and we're entering the last week of classes at JMU, so I'm looking forward to a ... http://davidnewman.info/2008/04/19/april-showers/ I'm still coming down from the high of performing Il Combattimento this weekend, and getting to do it with some of my favorite people. Also fun was the surprise (to me) of having it videotaped for broadcast on WHYY. (There were five robotic cameras stationed about the theater.) I also ... http://davidnewman.info/2008/03/10/its-whyy-month/ I've been remiss at keeping this updated, but I'm headed to Philly shortly for another concert with Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra. This one will be a first for me in several ways. For one, I've never been a participant in a puppet opera before. Secondly, it will be the ... http://davidnewman.info/2008/03/01/no-strings-attached/ I'm excited about my next performance with Bach Sinfonia, which happens this Saturday, October 20. I've performed with this group several times, and I was the bass soloist for their recent Dorian release of Handel's Alexander's Feast. While that was a rather small role, this concert features me rather prominently in ... http://davidnewman.info/2007/10/15/bach-sinfonia-concert/ I know that seems like an odd combination, and it's even odder to be working on it in the middle of August. However, I'm most of the way through a week of staging rehearsals for a half dozen performances of a staged Messiah with American Opera Theater that will happen ... http://davidnewman.info/2007/08/24/messiah-with-american-opera-theater/ At about the same time as I changed this website, I finally followed a dream I've had for about a decade of starting a free archive of sheet music on the Internet. Of course, there are quite a few such archives already in existence, but I've found none that really ... http://davidnewman.info/2007/06/01/art-song-central/ Of course, one of the reasons I've had time to make changes to the site is that JMU is out for the summer, and I have very few concerts in the next couple months. At the moment, I'm (mostly) enjoying spending time with my kids, and trying to fit some ... http://davidnewman.info/2007/05/13/more-site-stuff/ My website was quite overdue for a change. It will now be powered by Wordpress, which should help me keep it updated more often. I should have most of my important files accessible within the next few days. http://davidnewman.info/2007/05/09/hello-world/