On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Steve, ... what a curious discussion .... people should understand > the foreign language text > so these errors might not occur.
I mentioned this discussion to my wife - we were both voice majors in college - and she observed that, while one would never do this with an opera aria, it's quite common with lieder because, as she put it, lieder singers are story tellers while opera singers are singing actors. I've heard folk singers do the same thing, e.g., a woman sing a song with lyrics written in a man's voice in my native language, English. My wife's analogy works for me. There is a certain "artistic license" one may take with art songs, should one choose. Which brings me around to my first point, that maybe the way it was first performed, specifically the gender of the singer, isn't something we should bound by. -S- _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
