Dear John and list,
--- John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...> wrote: snip(...)For myself, though I do strive for the highest > standards, nothing is truly > easy for me. One of the things I really like about > singing is the way that > it does require my full attention, which would not > be the case if I were > more vocally facile.
Although I do have an easy voice, and many technical things - like support - don't require that much attention anymore since I start to do them automatically, singing does certainly require my full attention, and even more.
First of all there is the identification process: I want to be the person of the song, to feel like him, and not think of my own feeling, even if they are simular. This already is difficult, and it can change from song to song. And then of course there are thousand places in a song where I agreed with myself and with my pianist how to sing them, where to breathe and how much, there is the diction etcetera. The piano requires a special kind of attention: I have to listen to it, but cannot enjoy it too much, because then I cannot concentrate enough on the things I mentioned before.
So singing not only requires my 200 % attention despite my 'easy' voice, but probably because of those requirements it generates - if all goes well - the kind of 'flow' experience, where 'die Fluegel des Gesanges' (the wings of songs) can take us 'in eine bessere Welt' (sorry for the contamination of songs). Well, I suppose almost all of us know both melody, text and most of all, the feelings from 'Du holde Kunst', whatever the Fach or the grade of professionalism may be.
Best greetings, Dre
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