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From:  buzzcen@a...
buzzcen@a...
Date:  Mon Oct 16, 2000  10:11 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Re: opera and speech


In a message dated 10/16/00 12:30:21 AM Central Daylight Time,
RALUCOB@a... writes:
RALUCOB@a... writes:

<< i hate to keep picking
on samuel ramey but, his broadway cd betrays what he surely must be doing to
other languages. to me, it sounds as if he learned these songs
phonetically. he is not the only singer guilty of this but, this cd is a
fine(?) example of what i'm trying to point out. (check out his singing of
'how toe hahndul a woe-mahn'.) >>


Get Thomas Hampson's recording of Cole Porter songs... there's a point where
he rolls his r's and it sounds just rrrrrrrrridiculous.

Randy Buescher

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