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From:  "David Grogan" <dgrogan@e...>
"David Grogan" <dgrogan@e...>
Date:  Tue Jan 2, 2001  5:43 am
Subject:  Air Purification?


Fellow Singers,
Does anyone have any advice to give regarding units for air purification? I
got some money for Christmas, and was considering buying one, because there
is much dust, allergens, etc in my house, and I have heard good things about
them. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about them, and I have never
owned one. Some, from what I have heard, use a filtration system, while
others use some sort of ionization process. Any information you can send my
way would help me make a good decision. Thanks for your help!

David Grogan
ETBU Music

----- Original Message -----
From: Lloyd W. Hanson <lloyd.hanson@n...>
From: Lloyd W. Hanson <lloyd.hanson@n...>
To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: [vocalist] Female High Registers and Opera


> Dear Mike and Vocalisters:
>
> The reaction to female voices singing in their upper registers in
classical
> vocal mode or, as some call it, "opera style", is often related to the
> female voice as it is used when a woman is hysterical.
>
> Male voices used in an equivalent male range is still an octave lower and,
> typically, an hysterical male does not usually scream in the upper
> registers of his voice. I believe this is one of the primary reasons that
> many who do not care for opera frequently complain about the quality of
the
> upper registers in the female voice.
>
> Please do not confuse my comments on teaching singing as an endorsement of
> singing as a kind of speech. As I stated most clearly "Singing is
> different from speech". And the singing required of a performer who must
> be heard over an orchestra in a large hall is even more removed from most
> of the qualities of speech.
>
> Opera is a highly refined and, in that sense, a most abstract performing
> art. Opera should never be the same as real life even if it uses a story
> from real contemporary life. Opera is, and should be, a synthesis of
those
> parts of life that give life a deeper meaning. Opera must have a primary
> concern with the means that will bring such fundamental parts of life into
> a new and more poignant focus.
>
> One of those means is to have the actors sing rather than speak and the
more
> that their singing is different from speech the more complete is the
> synthesis necessary for the opera form to be successful. To complain that
> opera is too far removed from what is natural on stage (singing high in
the
> female range included) is to miss the whole point of what opera is about.
> Opera should not be natural; it should be the synthesis of what is
natural.
> In so doing opera can more clearly define the essence of what is natural
> without considering the causes or processes of naturalness.
>
> Opera attempts to create a kind of distillation of those natural elements
> which give life meaning. This is a most lofty and extremely difficult
> goal. When opera is successful in achieving this goal it is the most
> sublime and meaningful of the performing arts; when it fails to meet this
> goal opera is the most destitute and ridicules of all the arts. The bar
is
> very high; misses are easily discerned.
>
> Regards
> --
> Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
> Professor of Voice, Vocal Pedagogy
> School of Performing Arts
> Northern Arizona University
> Flagstaff, AZ 86011
>
>
>
>
>
>



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8026 Re: Air Purification? sopran@a...   Tue  1/2/2001   2 KB
8027 Re: Air Purification? Dean FH Macy   Tue  1/2/2001   2 KB
8045 Re: Air Purification? john@c...   Thu  1/4/2001   2 KB
8050 Re: Air Purification? saint james   Thu  1/4/2001   3 KB

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