In a message dated 3/26/2001 1:01:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, lloyd.hanson@n... writes: lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
<< Most of these vowel changes may be the result of his "Pfälzisches dialect" as you mention but I would be willing to bet that a substantial portion of these changes were taught and carefully learned. >>
lloyd,
if wunderlich were taught this rather than it being the result of his accent, he sure made it sound very natural. i think peter schreier betrays more of what your saying, particularly in that recording of strauss' 'capriccio'.
mike
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