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From:  dclark <DCLARK@r...>
dclark <DCLARK@r...>
Date:  Wed May 9, 2001  8:22 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] reading skills or rather a lack thereof.........


Nande wrote:

> Interesting!
> Reading aloud, well, that's not my biggest talent either. I tend to
> speak too fast, trip over words and my breath management is terrible.
> It's okay as long as I conciously keep my eyes a few words ahead of
> my tongue, but that requires real attention. Especially when reading
> bits longer than say, half a page...
> 10 years ago I was in drama school. Reading aloud was fine then,
> because I HAD to pause for dramatic purposes. It didn't affect my
> regular reading though..... :-))
>
> I'm very interested what you make of all this!

As a speech teacher, I am wondering why anyone would differentiate between
"regular" reading and "dramatic" reading. I teach that, in order to read or
speak well, one needs to make it as lively (a.k.a. dramatic) as possible!
:-)

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  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date Size
11687 Urgent repertoire help needed Jennifer   Wed  5/9/2001   2 KB
11693 Re: Urgent repertoire help needed Karen Mercedes   Wed  5/9/2001   3 KB
11711 Re: Urgent repertoire help needed Jeffrey Snider   Thu  5/10/2001   2 KB
11731 Favourite Psalm Settings (was: Urgent repertoire Karen Mercedes   Thu  5/10/2001   3 KB
11688 Re: reading skills or rather a lack thereof...... Nande   Wed  5/9/2001   2 KB
11705 Re: reading skills or rather a lack thereof...... John Link   Thu  5/10/2001   2 KB

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