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From:  Dre de Man <dredeman@y...>
Date:  Mon May 22, 2000  5:19 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Hurting support muscles was: 1st recital, longish etc.


Dear Mary Beth and list,

I think you certainly made a point, and the story
about the poor guy who dislocated one of the
cartileges in his larynx, because he was trying to
increase his lung capacity by swimming under water and
holding his breath for extended amounts of time, was
very interesting.
But I don't think it fits in here, because since a
couple of months, I just changed from pushing to
singing much more freely and light, more according to
the lyrical character of my voice. I do use much less
air and that is one of the reasons why my higher notes
have become very easy. (Otherwise I think I would not
have been able to sing the Mozart songs.)
Where I have the feeling I really do need much support
and much air, although not pushing, is when singing
low notes pianissimo, and that is exactly what I have
been doing before this feeling came up. As far as I
remember from Miller's book, this is not wrong. It
also did not hurt while singing, only afterwards I had
the feeling Ian described, like having done too many
push ups. This feeling also disappeared after lying
down in the pause for ten minutes, and did not return.
However, after the pause I sang much higher pieces,
that were much more comfortable for me. I have to add
to that, that the last song in the second part of the
concert, was Schuberts Staendchen (Leise flehen), and
the piano and passagio f's with which the song i.m.o.
should begin and began, were very clean, no hoarseness
or other sings of a voice that was tired (I have a
technically very good recording of the concert, so I
am sure).
I hope Ian will write an asnwer to this as well,
because since he asked how it hurted exactly, I am
sure he will have had something in mind, that will be
interesting for many of us.

Best greetings,
Dre

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1836 Re: Hurting support muscles was: 1st recital, lon Domisosing@a...   Mon  5/22/2000   3 KB
1874 Re: Hurting support muscles was: 1st recital, lon Ian Belsey   Wed  5/24/2000   3 KB

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