--- "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)"
<DCLARK@r...> wrote:
> Dre, what a wonderful accomplishment! Thanks for
> sharing it with us so elo-
> quently. Your post is a wonderful testimonial to
> the worth of this list! :)
> > I'm glad you had a wonderful accompanist to learn
> from. I could fill a book
> with all the marvelous things I have learned from
> the people I have been lucky
> enough to collaborate with.(...)snip
Dear list,
Dear Diane, thanks for your very nice reaction.
I'd like to add one thing; you wrote: 'I'm glad you
had had a wonderful accompanist to learn from.' Well,
I still have her (and like Alleson Aering I mostly
call her my pianist or just by her name) and I am very
glad to continue to work with her.
Besides the fact that I learned much from her, there
is the maybe even more important fact, that we share
the same feeling for the interpretation of the music,
let's say a more tender and lyrical than dramatic one
(which also fits better to my voice).
That's why working on the Schumann songs in
particular, searching for an interpretation that
suited the pianist and singer equally well, was so
rewarding. Actually, it was one of the nicest things I
ever did!
And completely opposite to the audition experiences of
some vocalisters, I felt very happy while singing,
knowing that she hardly would make a mistake, and
certainly not one that would cause difficulties for
me. I knew, moreover, that she would take precisely
the right tempi and would create exactly the musical
feeling the music and I needed. (I'll better stop here
before this gets into a kind of Kreutzer sonate, I
mean Tolstoi's, not Beethoven's!)
Greetings,
Dre
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