In a message dated 3/17/01 1:33:54 PM, peggyh@i... writes:
<< How do they learn how to sing properly and use good technique under difficult circumstances if the school they are trusting to teach them properly, is not only condoning but even encouraging a crutch that they won't (or shouldn't) have in the real world?
Do the audiences know how they and the students are being cheated? Why are the students not performing in a smaller space with a smaller orchestra commensurate with the singers' capabilities? If the singers aren't capable of singing in a large hall with an orchestra, why is the school presenting full opera productions, rather than scenes in a large classroom setting with piano accompaniment? Or are college music programs becoming the same as big-time college athletic programs - not there for the purpose of learning but to bring in the paying customers and impress the alumni and parents? >>
Similar thoughts occurred to me, but I did not have time to post them.
BTW, did anyone catch the Today Show segment the other day about the "tenor with attitude?" Apparently Decca has just signed this kid with a year and a half of coaching--apparently not actual voice lessons-- under his belt. They quoted his "coach" as saying "I have no idea how he does it." That sounds awfully scary to me.
The young man has an attractive timbre, but if can't he sing without a MICROPHONE, why is he performing Nessun dorma with orchestra?
Judy
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