>> My name is Frank Albinder.
I am a classical musician.
So over the course of my career I've been both a singer and a conductor, primarily of choirs.
Yeah every day is different, which I think is, kind of, a nice aspect to my work
because I don't have to go to an office every day.
I don't know if I could get used to doing something like that in this point in my career.
But some days I can sleep til noon because I don't get home
until midnight from rehearsals or performances.
Other days I spend time at the local office store photocopying.
I think I have a graduate degree in how to Xerox music clearly for people.
All legal copies of course, because we don't want to go to jail.
Some days I practice by myself studying music.
I spend a lot of time online just doing research, communicating with colleagues.
The internet has created a world of possibilities for people who work
in the smaller aspects of classical music and so it's easy to keep in touch with people all
around the world, talk about repertoire, get new ideas, share programs,
arrange for trips, conferences, things like that.
So every day's a little bit different.
For most of my professional career I sang as part of an acapella group called Chanticleer,
and we toured about 120 days a year, sometimes out of the country but mostly domestically.
So every tour was different.
Sometimes it could be a weekend.
You'd hope it was a local weekend but I remember a weekend trip
to Taiwan that was less than desirable.
Ideally you would be in the place where you're singing the day before you have to perform just
so you don't have to work too hard.
You want to rest, not talk a lot, drink lots of water, the usual things.
If you're performing something new or complicated you want to spend time alone
with the music so that when you have time before the performance to warm up as a group you're
up to speed and ready to go so that you can make the performance as good as possible.