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Program Notes: Karaoke Songfest Nov. 14, 2010Posted by: Horovi on Nov 17, 2010 Tagged in: Karaoke Songfest video
 
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The Karaoke Songfest on November 14, 2010 took place at Empire Szechuan Restaurant in Bethel on a Sunday afternoon. Nine students who are currently studying voice with Christina Rovics performed plus two guest artists, singing 26 songs in a 90 minute long program. Once again Empire Szechuan hosted the occasion by providing us with a private room, a quality menu at reasonable prices and excellent service that never distracted from the music, our main reason for getting together.
The video that corresponds to this blog is a nine minute distillation of the program. It includes a few moments of voice training time with Christina shot spontaneously in the studio during the weeks of preparation leading up to our Karaoke Songfest. The video omits only the two youngest singers (below the age of 13) who, by the way did beautifully. Their omission conforms to Youtube and Facebook’s protective privacy policies.
For anyone interested here’s some detail about the songs on the Karaoke Songfest video and the students who sang them in the order in which they appeared.
Sharon McCarthy sings Hopelessly Devoted to You from the musical Grease. She took voice lessons with Christina throughout high school, went away to college, launched her career in New York State as a public school teacher, and in her twenties returned to continue her voice studies. Last year she directed her first school musical production and is preparing her next one for 2011.
Laura McKee sings Lion Tamer from Stephen Schwartz’s musical, Magic Show. Howard made a recorded piano accompaniment for her for this performance since no Karaoke track was available commercially. Laura is from New Fairfield and attends Immaculate High School in Danbury.
Katey Loughran is heard first in a voice lesson learning how to belt the lyrics say it again which climaxes the rock song You’re No Good popularized by Linda Ronstadt. Then we hear her deliver the song at this event. Katey is attends Ridgefield High School.
Emily DeGirolamo follows in the same vein with another Linda Ronstadt rock standard -- Poor Pitiful Me. Emily is from attends Newtown Middle School and is from Sandy Hook.
Maria LoStocco at age 13 is one of the most experienced singers on the program. She appears frequently at public events in the Greater Danbury area. Here she sings I Feel the Earth Move, a Carol King rock standard. Maria attends Broadview Middle School in Danbury.
Laurin Gagne is first heard in a singing lesson with Christina Rovics learning to fine tune the resonance needed to sustain a tone appropriate to the style of the song that she is working on. Her performance of Jimmy from the musical thoroughly Modern Millie follows. Laurin is a sophomore at North Branford High.
Sarah-Kate Chiovitti sings Gimme Gimme from Thoroughly Modern Millie. She is from Thomaston and attends Holy Cross High School in Waterbury.
Victoria Chiera is heard singing Who Says You Can’t Go Home by Bon Jovi with a live guitar provided by Bob Caroll who also sings. Both are graduates of the music program at Wesconn in Danbury. Victoria studied with Christina Rovics for eight years and while in college performed several major operatic roles. Emily DeGirolamo concludes the video with Time to say goodbye, an Italian popular song known originally as Con te partiro as sung by Andrea Bocelli. Here she sings in both Italian and English in her soprano voice.
Laura McKee sings Lion Tamer from Stephen Schwartz’s musical, Magic Show. Howard made a recorded piano accompaniment for her for this performance since no Karaoke track was available commercially. Laura is from New Fairfield and attends Immaculate High School in Danbury.
Katey Loughran is heard first in a voice lesson learning how to belt the lyrics say it again which climaxes the rock song You’re No Good popularized by Linda Ronstadt. Then we hear her deliver the song at this event. Katey is attends Ridgefield High School.
Emily DeGirolamo follows in the same vein with another Linda Ronstadt rock standard -- Poor Pitiful Me. Emily is from attends Newtown Middle School and is from Sandy Hook.
Maria LoStocco at age 13 is one of the most experienced singers on the program. She appears frequently at public events in the Greater Danbury area. Here she sings I Feel the Earth Move, a Carol King rock standard. Maria attends Broadview Middle School in Danbury.
Laurin Gagne is first heard in a singing lesson with Christina Rovics learning to fine tune the resonance needed to sustain a tone appropriate to the style of the song that she is working on. Her performance of Jimmy from the musical thoroughly Modern Millie follows. Laurin is a sophomore at North Branford High.
Sarah-Kate Chiovitti sings Gimme Gimme from Thoroughly Modern Millie. She is from Thomaston and attends Holy Cross High School in Waterbury.
Victoria Chiera is heard singing Who Says You Can’t Go Home by Bon Jovi with a live guitar provided by Bob Caroll who also sings. Both are graduates of the music program at Wesconn in Danbury. Victoria studied with Christina Rovics for eight years and while in college performed several major operatic roles. Emily DeGirolamo concludes the video with Time to say goodbye, an Italian popular song known originally as Con te partiro as sung by Andrea Bocelli. Here she sings in both Italian and English in her soprano voice.
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attention to detail. My daughter Laurin Gagne age 15 has studied with many teachers. Laurin found Christina about 3 months ago. From her first lesson we could tell Christina was a great fit for Laurin. We are so pleased with Christina and Laurin absolutely adores her. I think with Christina's training and Laurin's vocal gift Broadway is not a maybe for Laurin but attainable.