To: vocalist
Subject: Re: Opera on the Organ, Anyone?
Date sent: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:35:50 PST
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

>From: Sopran-at-aol.com

>
>From my experience, it will depend on the skill and imagination of the
>organist, since I assume that you will be working with a piano reduction.
>An
>imaginative and sensitive organist should be able to do some very exciting
>things--and the sustaining quality would be more like singing with an
>orchestra. Why not give it a try?
>
>Judy

True. In the case of a pipe organ, we're looking at a 16th-century
synthesizer. I sometimes go to the monthly silent-film showings at the
Towne Theater in San Jose, which has a real live Wurlitzer pipe organ. When
the organist is REALLY cooking, you'd think he had a whole band up there!

Elizabeth Finkler
mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com

"A world without music is a world without love." --A.R. Gurney

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