[speaker001:] uh-huh um I guess we're supposed to talk about music
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and uh let me go ahead and push one here  uh do you have are you a musician yourself
[speaker002:] uh well I sing I don't play an instrument though
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh where do you sing in in a choir or a choral group
[speaker002:] oh not right now
[speaker001:] uh-huh what kind of singing do you like to do
[speaker002:] oh pretty much anything
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh Um are you uh are are have you have you been singing a long time or have you studied uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh yeah a long time out all through college and everything I was in the choirs
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and I've had some classical vocal training um-hum
[speaker001:] oh really oh great did did you do that in uh Texas or somewhere else
[speaker002:] no I was in Europe
[speaker001:] oh whereabouts
[speaker002:] in uh in Germany
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh that's wonderful um well I likewise sang in high school and in college in choirs and then I didn't sing in a choral group um until after I was uh married and I sang in a couple of uh community choirs and then um waited for a while and now I've for about the last eight years I've sung in a church choir here in Texas and um
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] so I I enjoy just the chorals singing a lot as well Um are you a soprano alto or
[speaker002:] um-hum soprano
[speaker001:] a soprano yeah so am I do you and uh what kind of music do you like to sing um you were saying you had classical training do you have a particular composer that you like or a particular type
[speaker002:] oh well as far as opera goes I'm I think most fond of Verdi
[speaker001:] uh-huh I've been listening to um some um some advertisements for Madam Butterfly and I'm wondering if you if you have ever done anything like that have you ever done any uh if if you had done Madam Butterfly
[speaker002:] no no I haven't done um I'd love to but
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] um that's uh Puccini I think right
[speaker001:] uh-huh yes uh-huh um Madam Butterfly was um in Dallas it's been two or three years ago now and then I went to see that and it was really wonderful it was particularly well the acting was particularly nice I thought and um
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] so it was quite popular um you don't play um an instrument so ah
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] uh um have you ever wanted to like guitar or piano or
[speaker002:] uh I think it would be nice if I played the piano
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that I think that's always a good instrument for anybody who sings or does you know some other kind of instrument I think piano is always good background beginner Um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I played piano all through well I guess from the time I was five five until I graduated from college and uh then I was a piano teacher for a while while my husband was in graduate school so um that was the instrument both of my children started on but neither of them stayed with it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] one of them um turned into a violinist and the other one is the boy is um guitar and and percussion so um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but the I I think that the piano background is very um useful and um I'm sure that it for you it would have been great to be able to accompany yourself just for practicing and so on
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] uh-huh do you have any other kind of music that you like
[speaker002:] um oh I like to listen to all different kinds of music
[speaker001:] um-hum I have a I used to work with a fellow who had um although this was a computer company he had his uh PhD in musical uh I guess it was in composition actually from University of North Texas and uh when I would go into his his office every now and then you never knew what kind of music he'd be playing on the radio It may be country it might be classical it might be rock you know it was just he said that that just about what you said that he just liked all kinds of music
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] and that was that was neat for for me to hear that somebody is
[speaker002:] there's you know some of the really totally country stuff I don't really particularly like but
[speaker001:] yeah yeah um do you have any plans to uh do anything with your music in the near future or
[speaker002:] well I have I have like we I wish I could but I I don't really know how to go about it without having a degree or
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] I know that there are if you're interested in choral singing I'm not sure where you are in Texas but I do know that some communities have uh uh community choruses and uh that's often a good way to get back into it again um it's not really terribly demanding you might have to audition but that probably wouldn't be a problem but um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] there usually you know that they take tours and things like that and you get to know you know people um socially as well as as in a musical setting so that's always fun I think that's
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] well that's one reason why I have enjoyed my choir so much is that not only do we sing wonderful music but we've gotten to know each other quite well um in on a a social level and I think we sing better because of that I think you know I think we sing more like uh
[speaker002:] um-hum that's good
[speaker001:] people who trust each other which is really nice
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] so whereabouts in Texas are you if I could ask
[speaker002:] oh I'm in Flower Mound uh-huh
[speaker001:] Flower Mound okay well I'm in Plano so um we're just not too far apart actually
[speaker002:] yeah that's pretty close
[speaker001:] uh-huh it was funny um um it's you know I talk to people all over uh Texas um and only one person outside of the country uh of the state so I'm always asking where where in the state you know the person is from if they're in Texas
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um are do you have a family
[speaker002:] um I'm married
[speaker001:] uh-huh I was wondering if your if your spouse or if you know if you had uh other musical people in your family
[speaker002:] I'm sorry
[speaker001:] uh if you have other people in your family who are also musical
[speaker002:] oh a little bit
[speaker001:] uh-huh do you come by it naturally was your were your parents that musical yeah yeah that often is the case um
[speaker002:] yeah I think so
[speaker001:] the you know it's it sometimes it will skip like my husband is not musical at all but his mother is very musical and um and his children are very musical so you never know where the talent is going to show up I guess sometimes so um well I'm not sure how long we've talked I haven't paid haven't been paying attention to the to the clock but uh
[speaker002:] I think
[speaker001:] I'll bet we've done we've done at least five minutes
[speaker002:] probably
[speaker001:] well I 've enjoyed talking with you uh Becky and um maybe we'll talk again uh-huh bye-bye
[speaker002:] okay all right thanks bye-bye