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Schedule | Bio | Concerts | Resume | Recordings | Video | Interviews & Press | Gallery | Contact | HOME "I want to get back to beautiful singing. When you hear songs these days, there’s so many bells and whistles that you can’t hear the melody." November 7, 2008 An important update on the status of Hugh's solo album has been posted on the HPN message board.
Hugh discusses his plans for a solo
album in an interview for this site:
The news is that, you know, initially,
we were hoping to get things underway while I was on my quote hiatus
between Lestat San Francisco and New York, but we all went into
rehearsals so quickly after that that there was no time. Immediately
following Lestat, I started the um long process of going through music
and sorting through songs and, um, I'd say out of, um, out of maybe I'm
gonna say thirteen because that's a good number for a CD, I have about
four or five that I'm really happy with. But it's a much more difficult
job picking songs than I ever would've thought or dreamed about. And I'm
listening to a lot new songs and I'm going through a lot older songs and
seeing if there's new way to treat then and, of course, "Company" came
up and that took me out of the City for six weeks. But, even while I was
here in Seattle, I have been doing work over the phone with people from
Sony and actually went into the studio here and did a demo.
At the time that, um, Kris Chenoweth was doing her CD for Sony, we were
room-mates...this is a long time ago in California...and I remember she
was doing a tv show and flying back and forth to record and then flying
to do the photo-shoot and, you know, you have to do your album cover and
the liner notes and all that stuff so it's a big deal and you want to do
it right. You know I held off...as you know from other talks, I
think...I've held off on doing anything like this for many, many years
because I thought if I do it, I really want to do something artistic. I
didn't want to just take a bunch of, you know, my audition songs or
things, you know, song that I love to sing and slap it on a CD and
expect people to, you know, to get something out of it...that seemed
like more of a vanity project and I really...I love all different kinds
of music and I want to...I want do something that, you know, thirty
years from now, I can look back on and go, "Oh, you know, I'm really
glad I did that." And, you know, with respect to different aspects of my
training, you know, at school, and some of my classical roots. ~ from an HPN interview recorded in Seattle, October 26, 2006
Following the Broadway Musicals of 1938 concert on March 26, 2007, Hugh Panaro recorded the following video for the site. He said he'd welcome any song suggestions for his CD.
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