| To: vocalist Subject: Re: Opera on the Organ, Anyone? Date sent: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:35:50 PST Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
>From: Sopran-at-aol.com
> >From my experience, it will depend on the skill and imagination of the >organist, since I assume that you will be working with a piano reduction. >An >imaginative and sensitive organist should be able to do some very exciting >things--and the sustaining quality would be more like singing with an >orchestra. Why not give it a try? > >Judy
True. In the case of a pipe organ, we're looking at a 16th-century synthesizer. I sometimes go to the monthly silent-film showings at the Towne Theater in San Jose, which has a real live Wurlitzer pipe organ. When the organist is REALLY cooking, you'd think he had a whole band up there!
Elizabeth Finkler mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com
"A world without music is a world without love." --A.R. Gurney
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