> The singer > who is also a musician will always be selected over > the lovely voice > who has not developed his/her musicianship skills.
From the uninspiring singing I have heard from conservatory recitals and from competitions whose participants are just out of school, this seems to be true. However, I think that it is a mistake to demand skills like this of a singer at the age of 18, or to overlook a promising voice with operatic potential because someone with a less exciting voice had enough money to take private piano lessons from the time they were six.
If musicianship were as widely taught as literacy in grade school, or if most students had decided to devote themselves to classical music much before they enter college, it might be more reasonable. If learning to read were something only a small, wealthy percentage of children were taught to do, I bet that acting schools would take on illiterate students with talent and potential and teach them to read.
Isabelle B.
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