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From:  buzzcen@a...
Date:  Fri Nov 8, 2002  5:01 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] re: nats and broadway divisions

The Midwest chapter held its competition last weekend and 2 out of the 3
winners in the Broadway 2 division were my students which made me look good.
However, while I am proud of them, and happy for them, in many ways they
should have been the last two out of my studio to win and are the least
likely to have a legitimate shot at being cast in the real world of musical
theater.

Why'd then win? They sounded more legit which is what won in those divisions
across the board. The Broadway divisions should be adjudicated according to
the standards of the genre not the standards of classical music and strictly
classical singing. If this cannot be done they should just scrap the whole
thing. Three schmoes off the street could have probably given more
representative results than academic/classical teachers.

This is the exact reason I discourage my students from entering into most
university musical theater programs. The same faculty that is dealing with
the classical side is dealing with the musical theater side and they are (on
the whole) clueless about this type of singing ... what a shame for those
students that get sucked into that. They come out of the programs with very
little chance of being hired. It's unethical.

Randy Buescher
www.speechlevelvoice.com







  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date  
20786 Re: nats and broadway divisionsLloyd W. Hanson lwh1 Fri  11/8/2002  
20787 Donald Miller at Mount Sinai Hospital 11/9John Link johnlink010254 Fri  11/8/2002  
20797 Re: Donald Miller at Mount Sinai Hospital 11/9Lloyd W. Hanson lwh1 Sat  11/9/2002  
20829 Re: Donald Miller at Mount Sinai Hospital 11/9John Link johnlink010254 Tue  11/12/2002  
20843 Re: Donald Miller at Mount Sinai Hospital 11/9Tracey vocalistuk Wed  11/13/2002  
20789 Re: nats and broadway divisionsKaren Mercedes   Fri  11/8/2002  
20798 Is it possible to overtrain?Karen Mercedes   Sun  11/10/2002  
20799 Re: Is it possible to overtrain?Greypins@a... greypins Sun  11/10/2002  
20800 Re: Is it possible to overtrain?buzzcen@a... buzzcen2000 Sun  11/10/2002  

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