Liz, and List, but not Liszt, I've been lucky to be able to stay away from microphones in my singing, though as a classical guitarist I confess to having found discrete amplification useful when I was but the source of background music (forgive me, I thought it would lead somewhere!). No, the odd inverted problem I had was, a couple of years ago I was to sing the bass solos in a choral work of Central American origin with a big battery of percussion. The solo part had low E s, *while the percussion was playing*. It eventually dawned on me that the work was intended to have amplified soloists, though the score gave no such indication. From this meagre experience, and a couple of other things I deduce that there exists in Latin America - at least - a fairly lively tradition of quasi-classical music which uses amplification regularily. Comments from Caio and others? john John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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