When my brother, the classical composer, lived with us, I used to hear his new compositions on a daily basis. That was years ago and I didn't realise how much I actually missed it until today. Today, he brought over the "magic" keyboard with all kinds of different sounds on it and played excerpts from the opera he is working on. It is like nothing he has ever written before and I have to say, despite it being by my brother, it is gorgeous music, imo. I have always said I never promoted his music because of him, it was always because of the music, itself. Anyway, I was blown away with the beauty of the songs in his opera. (It is all tonal, no avant garde crap!:-)

So, I guess I am going to help him with some promotion for the first time in years. What I want to do is make a demo CD of some of the songs from this opera and send them out to various opera companies, etc.

Would any of you be willing and/or able to sing one or two songs for demo purposes? He's got parts for baritone, tenor, soprano and bass. I figure if you don't read music, he can play the tune and I can send it by email. I envision voice files sent to me, then him playing from his study score, the orchestra's part, and putting the two together.

Does this make any sense and are any of you interested and/or willing? I cannot promise any monetary compensation, but you would get credit for your voice and a free CD of that, plus his other works if you are interested in classical at all. Micca can vouch for some of his works, as he's had tapes of them.

If this isn't anything any of you are interested in, that's okay. I understand. I figure it couldn't hurt to ask!:-)

Thanks,

kat