Ok - so I need to catch up on posting, but here's a challenge I've been thrown, and I want to remember it. More AW posting to catch up on later tomorrow. Many thanks to my fellow singers on the Vocalist mailing list through Yahoo!Groups for this challenge.

The challenge is to learn a new aria, art song, or oratorio piece in
two weeks. Since this is a challenge and since I wanted to shut my
internal critic up before it starts telling me two weeks isn't
enough to perfect a song. *YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT*. This
challenge isn't about getting the music perfect. The music doesn't
even have to be memorized. What I'm trying to do is to carve out a
niche of time for musical exploration.

Much like clothes, some of the pieces you work on will fit and
you'll decide to wear. Some you'll just try on and put back on the
shelf. But each piece you decide to explore has to be worked on for
two weeks.

After a year, you will have explored about 26 new pieces of music.
Not too shabby an accomplishment in my book.

OR this one:

Learn a major role (music and words memorised) in the 3-act opera of your choice in 2 weeks.

Think it can't be done? Guess again. Just ask Placido Domingo.

Thanks, you guys, for throwing the gauntlet down. Now to get to work! I'll sleep on my decision tonight and post here in the morning.