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From:  "chenweijie81" <chenweijie81@y...>
Date:  Fri Nov 1, 2002  3:34 am
Subject:  Re: Are bass-baritones considered rare in terms of baritone voice category???

Dear Mark,
I guess we will leave to the public and the singing experts to
hear the voices of the singers themselves to decide.It can be
sometimes pretty frustrating trying to figure out the voice type of
yours.

From Weijie

--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
wrote:
>
> Having studied with one and been friends with the other, both of
these
> artists considered themselves baritones. Artists are rarely
responsible
> for how they are billed; ask any mezzo how many times she's been
billed as
> a soprano.
>
> Someone earlier mentioned Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as a bass-
baritone: I
> have never seen him billed as such either.
>
> Mark
>
> "Sing on the interest, not on the principal" - Florence Page
Kimball, to
> her student Leontyne Price
> "The voice is not a fist." - Fritz Wunderlich
> "I sing with a slim voice." - Birgit Nilsson
>
>
**********************************************************************
******
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Tako Oda wrote:
>
> > Max van Egmond and William Parker are examples of this "cantate"
type
> > of bass voice. I've actually seen Parker billed as a bass-baritone
> > before, if I'm not imagining things.





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