URCAD
The Undergraduate Research Creative Achievement Day. Sexy title, eh? The Provost’s office sponsors this event where they allow undergrads to do research in a field of interest which is a pretty neat concept. A friend of mine went to a bunch of different concert venues and took samples of the acoustical qualities of the space to use for recording so by clicking a button in your one room studio you can sound like you’re performing in Carnegie Hall.
I know a lot of people who use the money (about $1500) to go to summer festivals and stuff like that. I decided to do some research on pacing a solo recital essentially trying to develop a set of criteria that will allow a vocalist to optimize a solo program for audience enjoyment, technical challenge, and feasibility of completion by interviewing different voice teachers and doing some score study and analysis to identify points in standard literature that present problems for developing singers.
I’ve been wracking my brain for the past couple of weeks trying to synthesize all of the information and write this proposal but fortunately I finally got it cranked out. I’m thinking the idea itself is pretty cool. Hopefully the folks over at the Office of Undergraduate Education will thin so too and let me do it.
