The late, great Puerto Rican baritone Pablo Elvira stated this too. Elvira's comments (& scales) are found in Jerome Hines' book on "Great Singers".
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----Original Message----- >From: Greypins@a... <Greypins@a... < >Date: Friday, April 06, 2001 12:30 AM > >In a message dated 4/6/2001 12:52:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >stjames@l... writes: > Fast scales that just touch on the highest note(s) are the way to extend range. The ability to sustain these high notes comes with time and after doing lots of scales. Trying to extend range by holding these high notes is not the way to extend range. >> >
Mike's post: > i whole-heartedly second your point. i would go on to paraphrase richard miller in saying that developing agility is not only good for fast, running note passages but, is also key to a good sostenuto. without the freedom to sing fast scales, the freedom to sing sostenuto is not there either. lastly, i think it is much easier to hit high notes your afraid of
and run away before they hit back. >
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