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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:43:48 EST
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- From: Sonia Kovitz <skovitz@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Russ's voice
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- "mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU" at Jan 28, 93 1:13 am
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- > Russ, I'm sure you know by now that I believe that anyone can be taught/
- > trained to sing, at least on pitch. Most people confuse the "ability to
- > sing" with the subjective quality of each person's voice. There are many
- > people who can keep pitch, follow a harmony part and blend into a chorus,
- > but who simply do not have what the current musical scene considers to be
- > an attractive voice. Similarly, there are people, including both of my
- > ex-boyfriends, who never learned to carry a tune vocally, who have lovely
- > tonal quality to both their singing and speaking voices. You CAN sing, you
- > just don't think you can. Agreed, you may never sing a solo at the Met, but
- > you could be trained well enough to sing in the chorus....
- >
- > I'm sure I'm inviting lots of comment here - I welcome it!
- >
- > Marsha, who some people continue to insist has a decent voice quality....
- >
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-
- Yeah Marsha, great topic! My WHOLE life I wanted to sing but felt too shy to
- try, but finally I learned how to chant Torah recently and discovered I really
- do have a strong, clear (and so people say) beautiful singing voice, i.e.
- CHANTING voice. But singing is much harder... it's harder to sing than chant
- for some reason, even though chanting is melodic.
-
- And my SPEAKING voice makes me downright sick. How about some advice, hon?
-
- Sonia
-