Judy,
I confess that, being on holiday, I missed the beginning of the thread. I
believe we do indeed agree with one another. Faced with a rehearsal tape of
a Lieder recital I'm about to do, I am faced with: act, and tuning suffers;
or sing, and hope that the emotional situation is adequately conveyed by
what I do. I believe that in the heyday of the Lied, acting (in this sense)
came first. I expect to be on a tightrope! john
At 04:09 PM 8/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 8/7/00 4:42:41 PM, BLYTHE@B... writes:
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><< I came as something of a novice to both acting and solo singing only a few
>years ago. I've found that you can't do it just be being 'honest' - you
>always hhave to be aware of many technical things >>
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>Dear John,
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>I don't disagree with you at all!
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>However, by "honest" I did not mean to imply "unschooled" or totally
natural,
>but rather a level of artifice that is not amateurish, but still somehow
>unconvincing
>(obviously contrived or calculated).
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>Certainly if one has studied technique and explored the music and text on
>many levels, there will be a level of artifice involved. Some singers,
>however, can make their performance appear to be utterly fresh, immediate
>and spontaneous--while others seem unable to do so.
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>Judy
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John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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