Thank you, well said! Some of us believe in our
music and want to do the best we can and give the
people something for their money.
As far as musical taste and appreciation:
Classical voice lessons may help us make a
better recording; but we're not going to lay down
our guitars join the next choral group and have
dreams of singing at the MET; unless allowed to
bring the whole band along and be able to play at
least one original rock song - after we
demonstrate of course that we can sing an opera
piece with the proper diction and be heard above
the Orchestra without a microphone ;-)
-Andrea
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Sorry, but I'm afraid this is just the kind of
snobbish attitude that
has pushed opera to the back of the queue
regarding popularity. Pop
singers, and rock singers, have no choice but to
relentlessly market
themselves. For them, there is no option of
existing on a government
arts handout ("Lottery" money in Britain). It is
do or die. If anyone
has ever read interviews or watched a music
documentary one would see
how hard pop acts are pushed early in their
careers, and how they
perform when ill in order to attain success. I am
as cynical as the
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