Klarinet Archive - Posting 000919.txt from 1998/05

From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Orchestras which sing
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 02:56:58 -0400

>> >I think if you can sing it slightly helps your instrumental abilities
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I think, if you can play, it very much helps your singing abilities, (not to
mention the fact that you will also be able to read music). I remember when
I was in college, when it was time for the vocal people to sight-sing in
theory class, they always did so with such beautiful voices and such WRONG
pitches. I also remember walking down the halls where the practice rooms
were and watching them hunt and peck at the piano with one finger to learn
the pitches. Then, I noticed what prima donnas they were and thought how
they actually thought they were musicians. I know that this is certainly
not true for all singers, just many of them!

>> Oh, yeah! Correct breathing is important to a wind instrument player, but
>> it is VITAL to a singer. Learning to sing, after many years of being
afraid
>> to try, has improved my breath control on clarinet and sax considerably.
>> And I learned something else I'd never thought of. We fuss a lot about
>> reeds and pads and the virtues and vices of instruments - or so it seems
>> from this list - but a singer IS her or his instrument, subject to moods,
>> fatigue and illness. Nervousness, tension or momentary loss of focus can
>> ruin a performance.
>>
>> With this new-found empathy for them, I have learned to love baritones
and
>> altos, and I'm working on tenors and sopranos. (Basses are generally so
>> laid-back and cheerful that I've always found them likeable.)
>>
>> Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.net>
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