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From:  Margaret Harrison <peggyh@i...>
Date:  Mon Apr 10, 2000  12:45 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Challenging?


LYNDA313@a... wrote in response to what I wrote:

<< That's why a "simple" song like "Caro mio ben" sounds like a different
piece entirely
when sung by an artist like Cecilia Bartoli. Listen to her CD "If you love
me", where
she performs many of the familiar "24 Italian Songs", and you can hear how
even the
"simplest" songs are a big artistic challenge. >>

if I am much aware of the difficulty of the artistic challenge when I
> listen to an art song performed, I may not truly be hearing one of the best
> recordings of that song available. To my ears and in my opinion, making the
> difficult sound simple is the goal of each performer, whether vocalist or
> instrumentalist.

I agree with what Lynda wrote, but I want to clarify that I don't think the
recording I
mentioned makes the songs sound difficult at all. It makes them sound so much
more lovely
and interesting than I think most of us are used to hearing when they're sung
by beginning
singers, that it makes them sound like different (and better) songs!

Peggy

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