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On 8/29/15 4:12 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> Of course, America has many accents, but usually you want Maria to have a Puerto Rican accent and Tony the white NYC one for the culture clash at the center of the story. To tell the Capulets from the Montagues, as it were.
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>> On Aug 29, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Also there was the puzzling casting of Jose Carreras as Tony in a West Side Story recording led by Lenny Bernstein himself. There are rehearsal films showing an exasperated Bernstein trying to get Carreras to sound more American...not "I chust met a gull named Marrria"
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On Aug 29, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 29/08/2015 20:57, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>>> It's been said that accents disappear when singing, which is pretty much
>>>> not true, except with classically trained singers.
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>>> Not always for them, either.  Just listen to a recording of Pavarotti even when he was singing in English - there was still a very marked Italian accent.
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>>> Roger
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