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From:  Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...>
Isabelle Bracamonte <ibracamonte@y...>
Date:  Fri Jan 19, 2001  1:22 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Studying Vocal Performance In College



> 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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Isabelle Bracamonte
San Francisco, CA
ibracamonte@y...




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