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From:  John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...>
Date:  Thu Apr 13, 2000  3:49 pm
Subject:  testing acoustics: Star Spangled #%&?!


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)
>
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John Blyth
Baritone, inter alia.
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada



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