Hi Listers: I'm going to have to pick the Lehmann book up! The local bookstore is ordering it now for me. Another great singing book is "Hints to Singers" by Lillian Nordica (Dover 0-486-40094-8, $4.95!!!)! I had to go to Alibiris to get her student Frantz Proschowsky's book "The Way to Sing", tho. Proschowsky's pupil, Weldon Whitlock, my college vocal coach, wrote "Bel Canto for the Twentieth Century" and "Profiles In Vocal Pedagogy" which are also no longer in print! I'd additionally recommend from Dover "Great Singers on the Art of Singing" by Hariette Brower & James Francis Cooke ($7.95, Dover 0-486-29190-1). This book is somewhat of an earlier generation "Great Singers on Great Singing", which was written by the late Jerome Hines and probably should be in everyone's library of vocal books. Brower and Cooke have interviews with Raisa, Alda, Farrar, Muzio, Galli-Curci, Homer, Butt, Braslau, Schumann-Heink, Caruso, Werrenrath, Bispham, Amato, etc, etc. The singers are long gone, but their vocal wisdom lingers on thru these reprints and many of us know their talents thru transfers of 78s on cds.
It's so neat that these books are out there and CHEAP!!
Ed
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