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From:  David Geary <dgeary@s...>
Date:  Sun Sep 8, 2002  8:16 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] "Muscle Memory"

08.09.02 07:51:28, April Salerno <april_salerno@y...> wrote:

>Hello Vocalisters...
>
> some folks
>believe when a singer learns a piece of music, the
>vocal technique used becomes deeply imprinted on the
>piece. .......This has simply not been
>my experience.

I agree with you. Particularly with students, if you worked on something for a
couple of months,
it is well to then leave it alone for awhile, and when they come back to it
several months later
they will notice the difference.
OTOH, I've known it to work the other way. Many years ago there was a concert on
TV in Europe from the Vienna
Opera. On the first part Nicolai Gedda sang "Amor ti vieta" from "Fedora" and it
was awful. He sounded old
and worn out, with no brilliance in the voice, nothing. I thought, oh dear, why
doesn't he stop, and not
ruin his reputation? After the break he came back again and sang the Lenski aria
from "Eugen Onegin",
which
he had always sung divinely, and still did. He sounded 25 years younger than in
the other aria. Somehow his
muscles still knew how it went.

David Geary
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