--- In vocalist-temporary@egroups.com, "Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...> wrote: <lloyd.hanson@n...> wrote:
> As an addendum, we require all vocal performance majors to turn in 6 > reports per semester about their listening to song recital or opera > performances from recorded material in our library. Each report > follows a form that steers the student toward developing a more > accurate analyses of what he/she is hearing. We do this because most > students do not have much of a background in song recital or opera > performances nor are they even slightly familiar with the really > great singers available on record.
Professor Hanson -
What I found perplexing was that so many of my fellow voice majors found this to be a real thorn in their sides - that they should HAVE to attend performances, and listen to recordings. WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO?! They only seemed to care, as I wrote, about songs THEY were singing, or operas THEY had a scene in/were doing - the rest be hanged...... When I was an undergrad, I ate it all up with a spoon - spent hours in the library, rhapsodizing over Pavarotti and Te Kanawa, etc., like a kid in a candy store! I also thoroughly enjoyed attending recitals and concerts - even things outside my area - like organ recitals, etc. Can anyone explain this narrowness of outlook to me? Any young voice majors out there that HATE to go to recitals? Or do listening?
Sarah
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