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You can be note perfect and deadly boring, or as the greatД¬onductor Sergiu Celibidache once remarked in referring to orchestral playing,

#MUSICALITY FULL#

History is full of note perfect singers who have put anДЄudience to sleep. Heartfelt rendition of a singer who has spent many hours training his ear by Musically correct, but rather mechanical and less spontaneous than the more It can result in the singer giving a perfunctory performance. The disadvantage of learning a role by sight-reading is that

Read is that it usually enables the singer to learn a part faster. In fact the main advantage in being able to sight. We would never have heard of the likes of Caruso, Pinza, Warren, Freni, DiДЄ great deal is made of the ability to sight- read, mainlyД«y instrumentalists who are inclined to think that this is the most importantДЇunction of musicianship. Singers had to be able to sight read in order to have a successful career Inherent, instinctive musicality I have ever seen.вЂќД«ut how many people really understand this? Very few I wouldДЄs IвЂ™ve said on at least one previous occasion, if all Great natural gifts and IвЂ™m pretty sure was not overly concerned about LanzaД«eing unable to read music when he stated, вЂњI think he has the greatest Herman Adler, who worked with Lanza on more than one occasion, recognised his Unschooled singers rely almost entirely on both coaches and conductors in order London hit the nail squarely on the head, because all musically Preparation of вЂThe Great CarusoвЂ™ film, his work was very respectableвЂќ.

But if he was well and carefully coached, as for the He had a wonderful natural sense of phrasing though with occasional Unschooled musically, could not read music and was thus always insecure in thisДЄrea. Nothing new in this, really, but like Boris Goldovsky before him, Jones overlooks the manвЂ™s musicality.ДЄs George London correctly stated, вЂњHe was Since Lanza was musically unschooled, JonesДЄbout the fact that Lanza couldnвЂ™t read music. The early 40s, about LanzaвЂ™s incredible voice, and then goes on to say that Manos talks about JonesвЂ™ time at Tanglewood in The reason I bring this up now is because IвЂ™ve just read theД¬omments made by choral master Ifor Jones, and included in a book titled вЂThe PresidentвЂ™s Lovers but not necessarily conversant in musical matters. When I say people, I mean those who are music I often wonder how many people understand the differenceД«etween musicality and musicianship.

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