The Fun Guy

Resumé of Singing Experience

Objective

Live in the heart of music.

Studies

2003-present, Susan Charles, Music Institute of Chicago.
1979-1981, Diane Fuchs. West Lafayette, Indiana.

Ensembles

2007-present, Figgy Pudding, renaissance trio with good cholesterol. Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2007, Chancel Choir, First United Methodist Church, Evanston. Jerry Jelsema director. Evanston, Illinois.
2006-present, Too Hot Choir. Bill Fraher, director. Chicago, Illinois.
2006, Music Institute Chorale, Daniel Wallenberg, director. Evanston, Illinois.
2004-2006, North Park University Chamber Singers. Wayland Rogers, director. Chicago, Illinois.
2003, Da Guys, barbershop quartet. Greater Chicago, Illinois.
1977-1980, Bach Chorale Singers. Paul Krasnovsky, director. West Lafayette, Indiana.
1974-1976, Itha-Kords, (now The Ithachords). Ron Clayton, director. SPEBSQSA (now Barbershop Harmony Society) barbershop chorus. Ithaca, New York.

Recent and Future Gigs

12, 14 December 2008, Too Hot to Handel (chorus). Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois.
12, 24 December 2008, Victorian Christmas carol quartet. Juliet Petrus, director. Drake Brothers Restaurant, & Palm Court, Chicago, Illinois.
26 October 2007, Figgy Pudding at Itasca Country Club, Illinois.

Recordings

I started recording my Personal Folk Legacy.

I wondered how Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" would sound as an actual ballad. Here are Parts I and II.

I made a very weird recording to audition for a "gloomy" group. See my private Web page.

Two ancient audition recordings:

"Nina" by Legrenzio Vincenzo Ciampi (but often attributed to Pergolesi) from his comic opera "Gli tre cicisbei ridicoli," which premiered at the King's Theatre, London, 1748 (AIFF format, 16,861,042 bytes).
"Countin' Flowers on the Wall" by Lewis DeWitt, Statler Brothers, 1966 (AIFF format, 12,949,222 bytes).

I intend to work up a number of licensed and expired-copyright compositions, solo and multitrack, to post on the Internet Archive. Here's a quick prototype, but not sufficiently musical: looping of a catch.

Copyright Michael J. O'Donnell <michael_odonnell@acm.org>. Licensed for free use.
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