To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
From: "michael.chesebro"
Subject: Re: Mariah Carey whistle tone demo
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

First:
><< For what it's worth, I agree with Jessica. I find listening to Mariah
> Carey very tiresome. . . .
Then:
>Although I feel the same way about certain Marilyn Horne or Cecelia Bartoli
>recordings . . .

For what it's worth, I like Mariah Carey. She does that commercial pop about as well as
it's done these days. In fact, comparing her to what I hear on the radio these days she is
really quite good. I admit that I don't seek her music out--I just don't bristle when my mid
40s brother put it on.

Horne and Bartoli, well now, I have heard many make complaints of one type of another.
Just the same, they are known for singing florid music that was the style in a given era. I
think it is more appropriate to criticize the music of that era than those two artists. As for
all that vocal fireworks and coloratura--I like that too. Very much. It can rivet me to my
seat and in context does have some meaning. Again, it's a stylistic idiom.

That's just one man's opinion.



Michael E. Chesebro, M.A.,C.C.C., S.L.P.
Voice & Fax: 714/596-3344