Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 2000/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The clarinet & modern music
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:36:52 -0500

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From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] The clarinet & modern music

> 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)

Huge vibrato and indefinite pitches are also considered faults in operatic
singing. Unfortunately singers are often allowed to get away with it
without too much criticism but at some point, the audiences and critics do
reject the singer.

Dee Hays

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