> even though i don't like her, i wish to defend her crooning on > recordings. i think singers like upshaw, dfd, prey, bostridge, etc. singers > who use a wider pallette of vocal 'effects', i'll call them, are judged on a > criteria more suited to the judgment of opera singers.
I can't speak for anyone else, but my judgement of Dawn Upshaw's crooning comes not from operatic criteria, but from that of the pop world--spread vowels, shallow tone, straight tone, glib presentation, et. al. I don't want to hear Sondheim in Schubert, though I like both.
Mark Montgomery
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