http://killeralto.com they call me killeralto Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:31:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://killeralto.com/alto-land http://killeralto.com/alto-land#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:06:49 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=7670 Life hasn’t been exceptionally dull in alto-land this January… I’m working on a project with my soloist colleagues at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis.  Judith Bingham, a composer from England, will be premiering a new composition with the choir on Sunday, January 22nd and we are hosting a free concert that afternoon of her solo [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/alto-land/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/goodbye-2011 http://killeralto.com/goodbye-2011#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:59:50 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5965 Not that this was a particularily good year for me – my husband away for an extended time, learning how to live on my own, new furnace, mounds and mounds of snow, cancelled trip to Argentina due to a volcano, losing my kitty Holly, home robbery, car accident with a deer – there were also [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/goodbye-2011/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/an-early-music-explanation http://killeralto.com/an-early-music-explanation#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:14:47 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5957 This is awesome… Early Musicby: piper77 A musician tries to describe early music…]]> http://killeralto.com/an-early-music-explanation/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/oh-deer http://killeralto.com/oh-deer#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:25:17 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5945 So it started out to be a fabulous Sunday in December…  temps hovering around 46 degrees, great weekend of Rose Ensemble concerts had preceded the day.  I sang the pants off of “O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion” in church, treated myself to a bubble tea from The Tea Garden, and picked up Ginna for [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/oh-deer/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/a-spanish-musical-treat http://killeralto.com/a-spanish-musical-treat#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:48:55 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5902 I have a special treat for you. Here’s your chance to hear some of our program from last Christmas, recorded live – La Nochebuena: A Spanish Renaissance Christmas with The Rose Ensemble. This concert is both rhythmic and regal and celebrates Christmas Eve. Many thanks to our friend, Tom Crann from Minnesota Public Radio for [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/a-spanish-musical-treat/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/holiday-mp3-for-sale http://killeralto.com/holiday-mp3-for-sale#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:21:09 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5868 Oh yes, boys and girls.  Lisa & Timm have a holiday mp3 for sale – it’s a really cute arrangement of Santa Claus is Comin’ to town and it’s the first time we’re jumping on the download sleigh.  So give it a whirl.  It’s only .99 cents and a fun addition to your holiday song [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/holiday-mp3-for-sale/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/sage-chape http://killeralto.com/sage-chape#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:16:00 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5827 I spent a wonderful weekend in Ithaca last week.  This will be a 2 part post since there’s so much to writeabout!  The Rose Ensemble was invited to perform at Cornell University to start off their music series in the Sage Chapel.  If you’ve never been to Cornell or live in the Ithaca area, you [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/sage-chape/feed 1 http://killeralto.com/isaccos-back http://killeralto.com/isaccos-back#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:04:38 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5817 Isacco Columbo is a wonderful musician that I met back in Legnano, Italy when The Rose Ensemble was invited to participate in La Fabbrica del Canto in 2008.  We became fast friends and invited him to become a part of our Il Poverello: The Life & Legacy of St. Francis of Assisi.  This is his [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/isaccos-back/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/homage-to-a-kitty http://killeralto.com/homage-to-a-kitty#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:18:35 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5371 Holly Go-Lightly came to me at the end of December.  A pretty tuxedo kitty, rather small, but full of life and vigor.  She was quite the talker and kept me entertained throughout the day.  Both she and Fred were from the Humane Society in Golden Valley.  The two became fast friends, both sleeping on the [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/homage-to-a-kitty/feed 0 http://killeralto.com/no-trippin-the-patagonia-fantastic http://killeralto.com/no-trippin-the-patagonia-fantastic#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:55:25 +0000 Lisa http://killeralto.com/?p=5359 The Rose Ensemble had to come to a very difficult decision this past Saturday.  On Friday, we had found out that all the domestic flights in Argentina were cancelled due to the ash cloud that was left from the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain.  This would mean that we would have flown out [...]]]> http://killeralto.com/no-trippin-the-patagonia-fantastic/feed 0