To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Switching fach... any survivors?
Date sent: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:37:00 -0500
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Whoo-hooooooo!! Go Diane! THAT is a fabulous conductor compliment for any
singer, especially a soprano ( we take a lot of pseudo-humorous guff at
times).

Laura

----- Original Message -----
From: "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)"
To: <vocalist>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 1:12 PM

> The coup de grace in this situation, as I think I've related before on the
> list, came in a rehearsal with the orchestra. In one of my solos, the
concert-
> master was having some difficulty playing a difficult part, and after
starting and stopping several times, the conductor finally said in
exasperation, "Why
> don't you count like the soprano is doing?" That shocked the poor man so
> badly that he played the part right thereafter! :)