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From:  Lisa-Marie Olson <lisa_molson@y...>
Date:  Thu Apr 13, 2000  9:54 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Expression/ was: The Voice of a (Greedy) Angel




> With this I disagree. I think emotional portryal is
> always in fashion. It's
> just the latest batch of singers don't know or care
> about putting feelings into
> singing.

I don't know if it is just the "latest" batch of
singers who don't do this. I often feel as though I
am on a solo crusade to bring emotion and feeling into
my own and my students' singing. I just watched a
program on PBS of opera singers performing on the Ed
Sullivan show. It had the best singers from the 50's
and 60's, and although I heard some amazingly
beautiful sounds, some fabulous technique, some
gorgeous legato, only ONE singer caught my attention
and kept it (guess who?) yes, it was Maria Callas.
She was the ONLY singer on this show who was "in
character", she never looked at the camera or the
audience once, and yet I couldn't take my eyes away
from the TV. I think that good singing takes so much
concentration, it gives many singers the license to
just sing and make faces indicating happy, sad, (or
maybe not even that). But, it can be done. I can't
wait until my technique catches up to my performing
ability (if it ever will).

Long Live La Divina!

Lisa-Marie

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