sing Elizabethan madrigal ma-
terial, and we would perform at
churches, and we even traveled
to Colonial Williamsburg once
when I was 12 and performed
at a lot of different places there
around Christmastime. We had
these sort of Elizabethan cos-
tumes that we wore, and the
music was pretty complicated — it
was five- and six- and seven-part
harmonies; she really pressed us
to do challenging stuff — so I think
I probably learned a lot about
harmony singing from that.
And when I was even younger,
my parents had this big console
stereo — the one that looks like
a big piece of giant furniture.
They had a bunch of records — in
particular, they liked to get re-
cords of Broadway musicals and
movie musicals. We had the
soundtrack to The Sound of Mu-
sic and I used to sit there when I
was little right next to the speak-
er and play the record over and
over again. And I would sing a
different character’s part each
time I played it — so I would sing
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