"The conflictive pressures and confrontational tensions that lie beneath a sung script...remain uninvestigated and, worse, disappear behind an infantile indication of the lyric. What we hear and witness, too often, are charaded performances of what is being sung. In general, this may be considered the root cause of the physical self-consciousness that afflicts cross-over actors, dancers, and, sadly, concert singers when they first begin a life in song. My thesis, then, is this: Concern yourself only with the words and the music of what you sing and you have joined the audience by becoming the reactor to, rather than the creator of the song. Simply stated, the subject and the predicate have reversed themselves: the song sings you."
David Craig, "On Performing Sondheim: A Little Night Music Revisited," Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook
The Scared is scared of the things you like...
"Life is process, not goal; the moment is all that can be enjoyed." Your own thoughts may well be the closest you'll ever be to experiencing a moment within the actual moment.
Investigate the conflictive pressures and confrontational tensions that lie beneath.
Receive. Cultivate curiosity.
You sing your song.
