{"id":18200,"date":"2022-04-11T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T13:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=18200"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:39:06","slug":"singing-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/singing-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Singing Solo\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Singing Solo<br>music from my childhood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even now I couldn\u2019t tell you the singer or the name of the piece of music. Nonetheless, music springs from my mind or the words from my lips. I don\u2019t remember most lyrics so I make up words as melody unfolds. I can\u2019t carry a tune so that anyone listening might recognize the piece, so there\u2019s not much help there either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why. My mother\u2019s Heintzman piano sat in our large front hall below the staircase that ended in a long platform we children used as a stage for song and dance at our family Christmas concerts. Mom would occasionally sit to play and sing aloud to her sheet music, from her youth, the great band era. She had a great repertoire of playable pieces from memory too which added to our familiarity with hymns and Christmas carols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our weekly Sunday drives following some country road, \u2018to see where it went\u2019 my Dad would say when asked, <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">\u2018where\u2019re we going?\u2019.<\/em> When the drive got boring and we grew restless in the back of beyond, my mother would cue a song and we\u2019d all join in. I didn\u2019t know how badly I sang until the nun directing the children\u2019s choir told me one day to just move my lips and not sing out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few Christmases ago, we were invited to a colleague\u2019s home for her annual Christmas singalong, where I sang with gusto. It so reminded me of Christmases long ago before our piano got sold. She said to me as we were leaving, she hadn\u2019t known I was such an enthusiastic singer. Her comment puzzled me, as did another\u2019s in church at a funeral for a religious person. The familiar hymns I hadn\u2019t heard again since my early years when latin was used in the church. At one point in the liturgy, you turn to your neighbours and make a sign of peace, when I met the inquiring look of a woman sitting behind me. At the end of the service, she touched my sleeve as we left the pew, and thanked me for singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose I might have taken singing lessons looking back, but that hasn\u2019t happened so far. I still sing aloud from time to time, and sometimes with gusto. I am no better remembering words of some old songs, but the musicals I like, I say the words or sing them badly &#8211; great fun for me. My sister said, I should sing solos, <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">\u2018so low, no one can hear!\u2019 <\/em>Bitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing Solomusic from my childhood Even now I couldn\u2019t tell you the singer or the name of the piece of music. Nonetheless, music springs from my mind or the words from my lips. I don\u2019t remember most lyrics so I make up words as melody unfolds. I can\u2019t carry a tune so that anyone listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24500,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions\/24500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}