Les wrote:
> Anyway, in recent years it seems that more mainline singing
> technique seems to be slowly creeping in to Barbershop. I think it's
> a very good thing.
>
+++It's not creeping, it's rushing in -- at least in Sweet Adelines!
> When I directed a Barbershop chorus, I tried to
> get them to learn a more mainline and vocally healthy technique with
> no nasality, no straight-tone singing and a nice full sound to the
> singing.
>
+++This is certainly the goal of today's barbershop singing.
> A lot of the old timers have some pretty screwy ideas about
> all that stuff but the young ones know better.
>
+++Lots of the older singers want to learn better, but, as we know, habits of a
lifetime are difficult to overcome. But they are trying!
+++Since more and more trained musicians are becoming barbershoppers, standards
are rising daily. It's an exciting time to be a barbershopper!
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> Dr. Diane M. Clark, Assoc. Prof. of Music
> Dept. of Music, Rhodes College
> 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112
> 901-843-3782; fax 843-3789
> dclark@r... http://www.rhodes.edu
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