In a message dated 02/10/2001 5:53:02 AM Central Standard Time, thomas8@t... writes: thomas8@t... writes:
<< The vocal belting style used by Mary Martin, Doris Day, Ethel Merman et al had much more of a classical approach (more head tone in chest, larynx not as high as following belters, more spread vowels) than that of say, Bernadette Peters, Patti Lupone et al. >>
And that's the sound I like and that I THINK I can reproduce reasonably well - although when I tried at last year's NATS workshop, I got thru 6 measures before the clinician stopped me and said, "You're not belting!" Well, that's kind of what I was there to learn - it was exactly the way you describe above but I wasn't sure if that was what belt was - he said it wasn't. He then told me I should have picked a lower song like "The Rose" (I was doing "All that jazz") and had the pianist transpose my piece down a 3rd. Then I said the phrase "Come on babe" 4 or 5 times, each time getting a response of "No! That's too presentational." Finally he told me to sit down. :(
Christine Thomas Wauwatosa, WI <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html"> http://hometown.aol.com/mezzoid/myhomepage/profile.html</A>
"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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