>From: Margaret Harrison <peggyh@i...>
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Challenging?
>Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:45:11 -0400
>
>LYNDA313@a... wrote in response to what I wrote:
>
> << That's why a "simple" song like "Caro mio ben" sounds like a different
> piece entirely
>when sung by an artist like Cecilia Bartoli. Listen to her CD "If you
>love me", where
>she performs many of the familiar "24 Italian Songs", and you can hear how
>even the
>"simplest" songs are a big artistic challenge. >>
>
>if I am much aware of the difficulty of the artistic challenge when I
> > listen to an art song performed, I may not truly be hearing one of the
>best
> > recordings of that song available. To my ears and in my opinion, making
>the
> > difficult sound simple is the goal of each performer, whether vocalist
>or
> > instrumentalist.
>
>I agree with what Lynda wrote, but I want to clarify that I don't think the
>recording I
>mentioned makes the songs sound difficult at all. It makes them sound so
>much more lovely
>and interesting than I think most of us are used to hearing when they're
>sung by beginning
>singers, that it makes them sound like different (and better) songs!
>
>Peggy
>
>--
>Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
>"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
>mailto:peggyh@i...
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