Simone believes in the power of communication.
For more than a decade, I performed cabaret, choral, and a cappella music. About two years into the cabarets, I first experienced performance anxiety. My right leg shook uncontrollably from the knee down. It was as if it wasn’t part of me. I firmly anchored my foot and soldiered on. To my surprise, no one was the wiser, but I wondered how I would manage, going forward.
The experience unnerved me. I considered keeping it to myself. Instead, I talked to my peers. At the next show, months later, I steeled myself. Nothing happened. In fact, I never again experienced performance anxiety. I credit that to not having kept my problem a secret.
Simone believes in the power of reinvention.
Simone Schloss graduated from Simmons College in 2017 with an MLIS, and honors from Beta Phi Mu, the International Library & Information Studies Honor Society. She served as Treasurer of the SLA (Special Library Association), Simmons student chapter. Simone concentrated in business topics such as: Knowledge Management; Competitive Intelligence; Business Reference; Data and Records Management; and Corporate Librarianship. She built a website about her vocal performance career, using Dreamweaver:
http://www.specialform.org/users/slsweb/.
During her Fall 2016 internship at the Lilly Music Library, Tufts University, Simone: digitized recordings, using Audacity; evaluated sheet music donations; and helped develop the cabaret collection. Simone curated a cabaret exhibit that includes the story of musical theater star Barbara Cooke’s reinvention as a solo concert artist. See photos, below. Check out Simone’s rhizr for tips on the weekly commute between New York and Boston:
http://rhizr.com/rz/CnvfYhpX7gg6JzuLj/from-new-york-to-boston.
Simone believes in the power of experience.
Previously, Simone graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with an MBA. For nearly a decade, she was an analyst at: the NYC Mayor’s OMB (Office of Management and Budget); General Motors’ TONY (Treasurer’s Office, NY); and the Federal Reserve Board (Washington, DC.) Simone graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in Economics. She is proficient in French, and was awarded a certificate from the Sorbonne University during her junior summer semester abroad.
What is Cabaret?
A 2016 exhibit at Tufts Lilly Music Library, curated by Simone Schloss.
The eclectic cabaret repertoire.
Showcases the library’s collection of cabaret recordings and scores.
From show song to cabaret classic.
Spotlights cabaret standards from a 1924 Gershwin musical.