In a message dated 11/30/2000 12:15:41 AM Central Standard Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:
<< It is also not uncommon for a voice to be placed into a heavier vocal
category because the tonal color of the voice is richer than the other voices
in a studio or a school. This is simply a lack of perspective on the part of
the teacher or the student because they have not had enough experience with
professional voices to make accurate comparisons possible.
>>
I remember when I was in college and I had a big voice for my age (without
much of a top) - I was singing Dalila and Carmen arias. A few years later, a
teacher assigned me "O don fatale". This same teacher had given me "O mio
Fernando" to prepare for an audition and two separate adjudicators asked me,
"Ms. Thomas, why are you singing this aria? You are a lyric mezzo and this
is far too heavy for you." It was not till then that I even knew the
difference between fachs, I'm embarrassed to say. I just knew the choral
designations and figured that if it was in the gray Schirmer mezzo anthology
and I had the notes, I could sing it. (Except the Wagner ... I knew that
much!)
Christine Thomas
Wauwatosa, WI
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http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html</A>
"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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