How to warm up in three vocal styles
NewsAn article in the Smithsonian magazine compares pre-performance exercises in western opera, Chinese opera and Carnatic singing.
Fascinating comparisons.
Read here.
Comments
MOST READ TODAY:
-
Orchestras
Powerhouse violinist quits in Cleveland
We hear that Stephen Rose, former head of…
-
News
Panic buttons at Cleveland
The steady departure of cherished professors at the…
-
RIP
Concertmaster dies, 44
The Finnish music world is in mourning for…
-
Opera
Opera singers ‘face a mental health crisis’
Singers’ agents tell us of a tsunami of…
A musical drag artist like this is hardly a good representative of classical singing.
The article was written by someone with no understanding of singing.
‘Zofia Majewski is a writing intern at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and a student at Carnegie Mellon University with an interdisciplinary major in vocal performance and politics and public policy, with a minor in environmental and sustainability studies.’
What can one say?
What I don’t understand is the illustration, which obviously comes from the fourth, Regietheater vocal style: pants off, on the knees, action. While the gentleman in the video is dressed.
Singing teachers – or voice teachers in America – are a bit like two Rabbis in a conflab! Two singing teachers, three opinions!
This is comment is slightly to the side but it *is* about warm-ups…
I have the impression that the new generation of choral conductors of amateur societies in the UK see warm-ups, not just as…well…warm-ups, but as (a) things to be turned into a fun events, and (b) things to be used to introduce elements of team-building, like ‘massage the shoulders of the person on your right and tell them your name in the lowest voice you can manage’. To me, it feels a bit Joyce-Grenfell-Nursery-School. How do others feel?
Spare us! American singing teachers – or voice teachers as they’re called – just love their lip trills! Ha, ha, ha!