Isabelle, who do you study with? 90 minute lessons sound like heaven. It
must be pricey, but worth it, it seems! I also enjoy my own voice. Leontyne
was right to love hers.
Jocelyn
>I have to say that I'm quite unashamed about my lesson
>tapes. I listen to them all the time -- and relish
>them. I love my own voice. Every lesson, there is
>some new, surprising sound that I am delighted with.
>I even relish the flaws, since I can study and replay
>and hear where they SHOULD go even when they go splat.
> I have learned to like my "true" sound, and there is
>more and more of it in every tape. I'm not saying
>there aren't lessons when I don't want to pitch the
>tape across the room, but more of the good sounds are
>emerging the harder I study. Also, I have found that,
>while you can't actually SING for six hours a day, you
>can *think* yourself singing while listening -- I
>either "feel" what I was doing right, or "feel" what I
>should have done differently -- and it really seems to
>help. I count my "active listening" as part of my
>mental-practice time, along with translating and
>reading Vocalist and listening to CDs of other
>singers.
>
>For instance, during yesterday's lesson, we worked
>through Mi chiamano Mimi, then Ernani involami, then
>Schubert's Du bist die Ruh, then Violetta's Addio del
>passato. I take 90-minute lessons, remember. The
>Mimi taught me that I enjoy my phrasing and that my
>B's are beginning to blossom the way I want, and after
>hearing them the third time this morning, I
>sympathetically *feel* where I want to put them. It
>was just a pleasant aria to listen to, and I only
>splatted "il profumo d'un fior" with regularity; the
>rest we worked out. It's an easy song to get through,
>so I am concentrating on phrasing, climax, il profumo,
>and exactly what a "Puccini portamento" should sound
>like (I have more honking swoops and funny glissandos
>than graceful portamenti at the moment).
>
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>How unabashed it seems to be saying this. I always
>liked Leontyne Price's quote when Hines asked her who
>her favorite singer was -- she said herself! But
>really, I've been listening to 90 minutes of myself
>three times a week for six years, so I think I've
>grown fond of it out of necessity.
>
>Isabelle B.
>
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>Isabelle Bracamonte
>San Francisco, CA
>ibracamonte@y...
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