>From: Linda Fox <linda@f...> >From: Linda Fox <linda@f...> > >mikebarb@n... wrote: > > > In the performance seminar, he helped me with "How Beautiful are the >Feet of > > Them" from the Messiah. He showed me that feeling the pulse "of those >feet > > walking," gives that piece life. > >Oh dear. I think this, again, was reading messages into the music after >they are already known - and I _really_ don't go along with the walking >image in this aria anyway, sorry. I'm not even sure of the sense of the >text before it was translated. >
BTW, which version of "How Beautiful Are the Feet" are we discussing? Soprano, alto, or that weird duet-with-chorus in the "alternate takes" section of Watkins Shaw?
Incidentally, the sweet old ladies at church tell me they can ALWAYS understand what I'm singing about.
Elizabeth Finkler http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo/ mightymezzo@h...
"Virtue is triumphant only in theatrical productions." --The Mikado
"Quitters never win. Winners never quit. But those who never win and never quit are just plain stupid." --anonymousse
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