Thank goodness I am not having to take on the craft of actually filming, just being IN the film. That, in and of itself, is a challenge. My experience is in the live theater. Big and small, the movements are completely different. Playing to a crowd is a far cry from playing to the camera. MY dear friend Thomas who is a film maker, had an idea. He has a similar energy to mine, when the idea comes, and you fell it strongly, you have to GO! His vision was me singing while I walked along the river. "Sister," he calls me his sister, "think of a song and we are going to make a music video!" So, here we are on the first day of shooting the music video!

The song I chose is from an album I made a couple of years ago. Although the style of singing  in the music I chose isn't the full-on, operatic singing I am doing now, I felt that this was the right choice. The song is "Love is Like a River" by composer Hiram Titus. Hiram and I collaborated on a recital in 2007 of mostly his works, some of them written specifically for me and many had never been performed. We recorded the recital and I produced a CD/DVD called "A Prelude to Summer" of. The chemistry Hiram and I have when we perform together is other worldly, and I am hoping to capture some of that essence in this music video.