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From:  "Ciro" <cirodaraujo@u...>
Date:  Fri Sep 22, 2000  4:01 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] College Ensemble Requirements: Choir vs. Opera



>For those singers in the academic environment who must sing in a chorus,
and who believe
>the choral singing is interfering with other singing, I would strongly
recommend that the
>singer bring the troublesome chorus music to the voice teacher, and work
the music into
>the voice as if it were solo music.

I believe the great question here is not singing in a choir with other
professionals but singing
in amateurish choirs with less than professional level singing. When one is
singing with
people who aren't really solo singers we end up by bringing down our own
standards.
For instance, it is almost impossible for a person with a big voice like
mine not to stand out
in an amateur choir. Last Christmas I was asked to help rehearse a 300
voice choir for a
Xmas concert by a very close friend of mine. In the concerts I was asked to
sing with them.. and my
voice "pointed out" of the choir, as well as the voice of my soprano friend
in the same situation.



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