Call me eccentric, but whenever I have to sing in an unfamiliar acoustic, or even somewhere in which I've not sung for a while, I'll make funny little clicks to get a feel for it, even if the audience is starting to come in (maybe they don't know it's me. Yeah, that's right, it's the heating system!) Then I remind myself not to force the tone when hundreds of sound-absorbent bodies come in and change all that. Even so, odd things can throw you. We're rehearsing a new opera (3 perfs starting next Thursday, in the middle of Canada, if you feel like travelling) in which the accompaniment is going to include an electronic keyboard. That, and the unfamiliar, tritone-rich idiom meant entries that were often rather out, to be euphemistic. It's a lot better now, by the way. john At 06:40 13/04/00 -0700, you wrote: >My first audition to get into university took place in an extremely resonant >(aka echoey) room. I had only ever sung in small, dead practice rooms, or >the college recital hall which was also pretty dead. I ended up singing out >of tune for most of the first page because I couldn't figure out the >acoustics. I cringe now whenever I have to sing in a room I've never tried >out before... > > >Jennifer, 3 hours to the competition in a hall she's never been in before >(I'm doing e-mail because my neighbours will KILL me if I start to warm up >before 7 am - why anybody would expect a singer to be vocally warmed up >enough to perform at 9:30 in the morning is beyond me) > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >1.6 Million Digital Images! >Download one Today from Corbis.com >http://click.egroups.com/1/3356/3/_/843894/_/955633199/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >vocalist-temporary-unsubscribe@o... > > > > John Blyth Baritone, inter alia. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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