OT - Opera

Jane wrote:

As for the singing.....*sigh* Well, I love to sing. Always have. I was in varous choirs and choruses for most of my life, starting at age 8. I've sung in several languages and even studied opera for a time with a lovely voice teacher. I'm used to going into a church and immediately being drafted for the choir. I had a 2 and a half octave range and could sing from tenor to soprano.
HAD.

And now....it's gone. All gone. My musical life is empty and depressing. I developed asthma later in life, in my 30s, and the medication that keeps me breathing manages to make my throat hurt when I sing. Once in a great while, if the stars are in the right configuration, it comes back for a brief time, but then I walk past someone who is wearing the wrong perfume and just like that, it's gone again. I've been to doctor after doctor, and unless I want to give up the medication that keeps me breathing, I have to give up the voice. That's my choice: Have a hard time breathing or have a hard time singing.

I still lisen to music once in awhile, but I'm still in the sucks to be me' stage, so it's just depressing to me.


That's terrible! How long ago did this start? I'm wondering if it's very
recent, and if so, maybe the effect is only temporary. If it's been this
way for a while, new asthma meds might become available that won't have
that awful effect.

I'd be pretty sad if I couldn't sing anymore, and I don't even think
I'm as good a singer as it sounds like you were. I really hope this changes
for you.

Joyce

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concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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On Monday, August 29, 2011 12:56:38 AM UTC-4, [no name] wrote:

That's terrible! How long ago did this start? I'm wondering if it's very
recent, and if so, maybe the effect is only temporary. If it's been this
way for a while, new asthma meds might become available that won't have
that awful effect.

I'd be pretty sad if I couldn't sing anymore, and I don't even think
I'm as good a singer as it sounds like you were. I really hope this changes
for you.

Joyce

I can't remember when it started, but definitely after I started asthma treatment. The asthma went untreated for quite a few years, because (as my sister says) as singers, we breathe better than most people, even when constricted, so the doctors didn't believe us. So I'm guessing about 10 years? It came on very gradually. I'm trying to figure out which medication hurts it, by switching over once in awhile, but it's also related to the weather and how close I get to too much scent (I've switched to unscented EVERYTHING).. Oddly enough, men's cologne doesn't seem to affect me, but a lot of women's perfumes do, especially when the woman seems to *bathe* in it and leave a cloud behind wherever she goes (I get a lot of that at work).
I'm thinking that the puffer is the biggest culprit, whereas Advair doesn't have as much of an effect. And of course, that's backwards from the standard, according to the doctor. Count on my body to be contrary.
Of course, hindsight is always 20/20, and I wish I'd had the nerve to sing more often when I had the voice. Now I just have a lot of regrets.
Jane

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Lesley typed:
On Aug 27, 3:52 pm, Yowie wrote:


Not all was lost, though. I'm writing a roll-playing game based
entirely on the quest for Xp and Gold and screwing over your fellow
characters :-)

Ever played "Munchkin"? It's a card game with the stated aim of back
stabbing the other players and getting the most gold etc. To be
honest I am not a fan of it but I know some people who are I'm not
really into board games ("Kingmaker" is the exception that proves the
rule) and the only 2 card games I like are "Flux" and "Chez Geek"

Absolutely, and is loosely what my game is based :-)

its called 'Necro 89', 1989 being the year before the well known Aussie
role-playing convention Necronomicon was started, and also conveniently
because '89 is 'about' the right period for most of my roleplaying peers to
be in their munckin prime - so its also a 'retro' game glorifying all that
is bad-taste about the 80's (Bon Jovi will be playing in the background the
whole time, for example)

Yowie

Yowie wrote:

its called 'Necro 89', 1989 being the year before the well known Aussie
role-playing convention Necronomicon was started, and also conveniently
because '89 is 'about' the right period for most of my roleplaying peers to
be in their munckin prime - so its also a 'retro' game glorifying all that
is bad-taste about the 80's (Bon Jovi will be playing in the background the
whole time, for example)

That's hilarious. There's a lot of bad taste to mine for this project.

Joyce

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I want freedom, the right to self expression, everyone's right to
beautiful radiant things. -- Emma Goldman

In ,
typed:
Sherry wrote:

Listen to this one. I bet you'll like it. (I've posted this link
before, and it's a pretty old video, but I love Sparta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo

I love the Mean Kitty song and video, but now it has commercials??

YouTube puts commercials over most videos. There's a little yellow vertical
line along the bar that tells you when its going to come up. It can be shut
very easily. I guess its the price we have to pay to keep YouTube free.

yowie

Yowie wrote:

YouTube puts commercials over most videos.

I didn't realize that. I've seen them on news websites that show clips
of TV news from earlier broadcasts. Commercials tend to be on a lot of
high-profile sites. I just didn't realize that they were so ubiquitous
that even some unknown person's video of their kid singing off-key would
now have a commercial. I suppose that it depends on how popular the video
itself is.

There's a little yellow vertical
line along the bar that tells you when its going to come up. It can be shut
very easily. I guess its the price we have to pay to keep YouTube free.

Paying to keep something free is a strange idea.

Joyce

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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see
themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily
embarassed millionaires.
--John Steinbeck

On Aug 29, 11:05*pm, wrote:
Yowie wrote:

* YouTube puts commercials over most videos.

I didn't realize that. I've seen them on news websites that show clips
of TV news from earlier broadcasts. Commercials tend to be on a lot of
*high-profile sites. I just didn't realize that they were so ubiquitous
that even some unknown person's video of their kid singing off-key would
now have a commercial. I suppose that it depends on how popular the video
itself is.

* There's a little yellow vertical
* line along the bar that tells you when its going to come up. It can be shut
* very easily. I guess its the price we have to pay to keep YouTube free.

Paying to keep something free is a strange idea.

Joyce

Some vids start with a still ad, and a countdown that says "You may
skip this
ad in 4...3...2...1...seconds. Then you have the option to skip the
rest of the
ad and just watch the video. It always makes me laugh. Like, how many
people
are going "YESSS! I want to watch that commercial for a 50,000 SUV
That I
have no interest in buying."

Sherry

Yowie wrote:
In ,
typed:
Sherry wrote:

Listen to this one. I bet you'll like it. (I've posted this link
before, and it's a pretty old video, but I love Sparta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo
I love the Mean Kitty song and video, but now it has commercials??

YouTube puts commercials over most videos. There's a little yellow vertical
line along the bar that tells you when its going to come up. It can be shut
very easily. I guess its the price we have to pay to keep YouTube free.

Interesting. I had no idea. I haven't ever seen a YouTube commercial. Maybe
the reason is that they are separate from the proper video you want to watch,
and Ad Block Plus (a Firefox add-on) prevents them. On some other sites, where
they show them just like the video you want to watch, but before it, it can't
be helped. Such is the BBC, for ex - the advert video starts, and only when it
is over, does the main video load.

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