Klarinet Archive - Posting 000183.txt from 2000/12

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The clarinet & modern music
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:51:46 -0500

Tony Wakefield wrote in part:

>(cut) It may be due to the fact that singers are actually
>using their body to create the sound, which when trained in a certain
>direction, then finds it tricky to adapt to other styles. Musicians, on the
>other hand don`t use their bodies quite so much, as they have an instrument
>to create the sound. (cut)

I'm not particularly fond of some vocal music - lieder and choral are fine,
but opera singing, with huge vibrato and indefinite pitch don't much impress
me. On the other hand, I would be careful about implying that singers are
not musicians. They get a bit defensive and testy over this sort of
generalization!

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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