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From:  "Michael Mayer" <mjmayer@h...>
Date:  Wed Aug 9, 2000  11:45 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] What the public wants? - was "Honest" singers





>From: "Lisa M Olson" <lisa_molson@m...>
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] What the public wants? - was "Honest"
>singers
>Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:20:59 -0700
>
>
>--
>
>On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:39:42
> Dr Kevin Hollis wrote:
>
> >When people who have not studied singing technique
> >watch a good singer they make comments like :-
> >"Doesn't he/she have a natural voice."
> >"It's so effortless."
> >This is simply because they don't 'see' the technique.
> >
> >
>
>This is going a different way with this topic, but with regard to the above
>statement. Does anyone else out there find, when watching "uneducated"
>audiences, that effortlessness doesn't cut it? What I mean is, I tend to
>see bigger ovations for singers who LOOK like they are working hard, than
>for singers who don't. I believe that one of the important things about
>learning technique is to NOT make it look hard. A good example of what I
>mean is Sarah Brightman. Every time I see her, she looks like an
>18-year-old singer, you can see every trick she is using to move her voice
>around, yet she gets ovations and accolades galore.
>
>Just my observations!
>
>Lisa-Marie
>
>


Lisa-Marie, absolutely. It seems as if the audience can't see you giving all
of your life blood they don't think you are involved. I think it has to do
with what people are conditioned to seeing. As singers and artists we want
to see and hear the closest thing to perfection and refined artistic
expression. But from the emotional outpourings of rock-n-roll, people are
conditioned to expect that kind of effort in a performance. Mind you I am
not knocking rock-n-roll, I started out as a rock singer because that is
what I knew when I was in high school. But when I started singing I got
exposed to artistic singing (versus what we may call realistic or emotional
singing). I guess this brings up a whole different topic, and it applies to
the thread about acting, artistic versus realistic performance. After I was
exposed to artistic singing and felt how that can speak to people, I wanted
to pursue that and try to perfect my voice and singing. Much like an athlete
wants to perfect their body and skill to be an Olympic champion. Maybe we
should watch the Olympics in a few weeks and see what parallels we can draw
with ourselves.

Michael



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