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In a message dated 01/22/2000 1:29:58 PM Central Standard Time, yvette-at-idgcpa.com writes:
<< respect your opinion, like I do everyone else on this list. However, I remember serveral postings a few months ago concerning opinions about opera singers (Charlotte Church springs immediately to mind)and a few broadway singers (ditto Bernadette Peters) and I didn't see any postings complaining about those entries. >>
Charlotte Church has been discussed ad nauseum and there have been LOTS and LOTS of complaints whenever her name is brought up (plus, she's not an opera singer). You missed the vitriol of about a year ago .... lucky you!
In my opinion, Vocalist largely attracts people who are interested in the well-produced voice and the study of voice - this is not to say that everyone on Vocalist is necessarily highly trained vocally or that those people who are not trained are not welcome - but I think if we took a survey, we would find the greatest percentage of current Listers to be interested in musical theater/classical music, sacred music (of all denominations), with straight pop music (not crossover from musical theater/classical/sacred) to be somewhere lower on the interest scale.
I think that there is interest in discussing how Mariah produces her sound or how Whitney's has changed through years and what has caused this change. However, I don't think going on about someone being "awesome" is enough. You need to qualify it - identify characteristics about the voice that you find attractive - a clear tone, expressiveness, etc. Otherwise, yes, people will tell you to go back to the alt.fan.backstreetboys page (or whatever).
My $0.02.
Chris Thomas Mezzo-Soprano Wauwatosa, WI
"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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