| Date sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:08:41 EST Subject: Re: Arias Transposed? To: vocalist Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
no, karen's point is that it must only be done the 'correct way' and my point is not that it should be done in transpostition. i think you are absolutely right. i think verdi is a genius just for writing 'come dal ciel precipito' for a bass. what i am saying is that transposing an aria to another fach does not destroy the piece. it can still be done in the original key by the original facher. suppose you heard that jon vickers had recorded 'come dal ciel precipito' in g min. would you listen out of curiosity? would you refuse to listen on principal (as if that would actually have an effect on anything)? what if you heard it and liked it to some degree, would that mean you stopped liking it the right way? can you not like both with a preference for one or the other? if i have hotter singing sachs on a cd and fischer-dieskau singing sachs on another, can't i enjoy both (yes, i know they are in the same key)? transposing an aria out of fach is not an insult to a composer. if anything, it may be a great compliment to a composer, as if to say 'i love this piece so much, i would give anything to be that voice type just so i could sing it'. to suggest that it is fine to do art songs in transposition while singing arias in transposition is 'unacceptable', is unacceptable.
mike
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