Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's 2016 Auditions (Harriet March Page, Artistic Director; Skye Atman accompanist for these rounds, with Board Director John McGree and other interested parties in attendance) for Dikkie Schoggen's Aging Grace (May 21-22, Missouri Street Theatre, Fairfield, CA) and Fresh Voices XVI (Mark Alburger's Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel and John Bilotta et al's Rosetta's Stone -- August 12-13, 26-27), including Chris Durand and Larissa Lorenz, Jill Wagoner,
Kassidy Grace Mayernik,
Jamie Samantha Lee, Jackie Goldgorin,
Jennifer Thuman, and
Marnie Margules. An excellent group!
The
way
down (23rd day of summer, high 73) to
Missouri Street Theatre
includes
a
diversion to
Formerly-Known-As-Kinko's,
and
the
mostly-
scenic
early-
evening
return
entails
errands,
before
back-to-work
on the
piano-vocal score and
visual libretto to Alma..., Op. 232: XXIX. 1907 - New York / Enrico Caruso / Jean Sibelius / Igor Stravinsky / Maria Anna (In the City) +
composition re Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251: XIX. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Symphony No. 8 (1955)...