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Apr. 10th, 2005 09:21 amstill no hot water. There are rumors that it will come back today or tomorrow, but I'll believe it when I see it. Rather I will believe it when I am soaking in a steamy bath and doing the dishes again.
The charity ball we went to last night was really fun. I won something useful in the raffles! I have a 3000 sum internet card (will buy about 8 hours) and 5 tickets to a popular night club here. Looks like I finally have the excuse/push I need to try clubbing in Tashkent again. We'll se how that goes.
It was fun to dress up fancy and dance with my husband to the slow songs - he was a very good sport.
Sevara Nazarkhan sang a set which was really enjoyable. She did mosty her Uzbek pop stuff and then one of the more hybrid/traditional pieces, Yo'l Bo'lsin, which I actually just heard at a maqom ensemble concert on Thursday. She also sat in with the jazz band and the ACCELS student Chris who played a set of his accoustic guitar stuff. Nazarkhan is flat when she sings in English, it kind of ruined the songs she sat in on. I can't really figure out why, but when singing with the other groups, she was consistently under pitch. I don't notice the same problem when she sings her Uzbek songs, either pop or hybrid. I'm not sure it is completely an issue of Uzbek vocal style. Perhaps the mind is too focused on remembering words and pronunciation in English to dedicate enough energy to super-accurate pitch matching? When I listen to the recordings of my voice lessons here, I think I have the same problem in Uzbek. I am consistently flat. I'm no super-star vocalist in English, but I can usually match pitch pretty well. This seems like something worth looking into at some point.
The charity ball we went to last night was really fun. I won something useful in the raffles! I have a 3000 sum internet card (will buy about 8 hours) and 5 tickets to a popular night club here. Looks like I finally have the excuse/push I need to try clubbing in Tashkent again. We'll se how that goes.
It was fun to dress up fancy and dance with my husband to the slow songs - he was a very good sport.
Sevara Nazarkhan sang a set which was really enjoyable. She did mosty her Uzbek pop stuff and then one of the more hybrid/traditional pieces, Yo'l Bo'lsin, which I actually just heard at a maqom ensemble concert on Thursday. She also sat in with the jazz band and the ACCELS student Chris who played a set of his accoustic guitar stuff. Nazarkhan is flat when she sings in English, it kind of ruined the songs she sat in on. I can't really figure out why, but when singing with the other groups, she was consistently under pitch. I don't notice the same problem when she sings her Uzbek songs, either pop or hybrid. I'm not sure it is completely an issue of Uzbek vocal style. Perhaps the mind is too focused on remembering words and pronunciation in English to dedicate enough energy to super-accurate pitch matching? When I listen to the recordings of my voice lessons here, I think I have the same problem in Uzbek. I am consistently flat. I'm no super-star vocalist in English, but I can usually match pitch pretty well. This seems like something worth looking into at some point.
