[Magdalen] Seasonal music
Scott Knitter
scottknitter at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 17:34:50 UTC 2016
I often remember the oft-repeated direction of our Michigan State U
choral director, Charles K. Smith: "Always beautiful." If a passage
soars to lofty heights in terms of pitch, let it do that and don't try
to help it by yelling. Focus instead on singing the right pitches with
beauty and phrasing.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> It is true that the sopranos either make the anthem or ruin it. It takes
> stratospheric laser beam tonality without vibrato to pull it off.
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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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