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). > cut
>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. > >===== >Isabelle Bracamonte >San Francisco, CA >ibracamonte@y... > > > > >__________________________________________________
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