Date sent: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:54:29 EST
Subject: Re: Vocalist Topics 'bad habits'
To: vocalist
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In a message dated 01/28/2000 10:08:36 AM Central Standard Time,
RALUCOB-at-aol.com writes:

<< i heard a story of a student of a famous singer (then in his anecdotage)
who learned all his music off records despite his teacher's efforts to learn
it from scratch(?). one day, the student was singing some aria when, all of
a
sudden, the teacher through the aria book at him yelling "if you are going
to
learn music from recordings, at least learn it from mine".
>>

Hey, I have a friend who had never taken lessons, saw the Met auditions ad in
the paper, learned an aria from a recording, and auditioned with it ... and
GOT IN to the supplemental chorus!!!


Chris Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"