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| Re: Nonstandard Monday [message #49938 is a reply to message #49934 ] |
Mon, 21 May 2012 22:56   |
EMoon
Messages: 663
Registered: March 2009 |
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Incredible day of doing stuff. I feel very...inactive...in comparison. (Though whatever gut bug got me Saturday is still with me, so the energy level is somewhere below my ankles. But you're accomplishing all this after a digestive upset and other problems....I have no excuse. Lazy so-and-so that I must be.)
Sorry it's being so hard for you. Agree on the singing. Svengali scolded me last week (and I was ready to collapse on the floor, at that point) saying that my inability to sing a given note wasn't my voice, but that I was interfering--stopping it--automatically, and that had to be fixed. Right. I know. I'd done that note (and a higher one) in the warm-up exercises, and then, when it came to it, and though I headed for it expecting to sing it...it vanished, my throat shut with a snap almost, and...nothing.
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| Re: Nonstandard Monday [message #49958 is a reply to message #49934 ] |
Wed, 23 May 2012 00:53 |
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 Diane in MN
Messages: 2728
Registered: October 2008
Location: Twin Cities, MN, USA |
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I think it’s something about emotional engagement—you may remember that this song got mixed up with Diana’s death for me—and it’s like suddenly, whoa, uh, no, maybe not.
I think you are 100% correct. There are some things I can't sing because they have enough emotional resonance that my voice just closes. And occasionally something I've known and sung for years without thinking about it will produce a catch in the throat for a very similar reason--suddenly a familiar old lyric will just HIT in a vulnerable spot--and the same thing happens. I have to assume that professional singers are able to maintain a certain distance from physical emotional effects, even while they are putting emotion into what they sing. This can't be easy.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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