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Stick Time: Faces Matter

October 6, 2011 by Scott Dorsey Leave a Comment


Sometimes choral singers look, well, dour.  I’m not talking about the serious face that accompanies the singing of some profound work. No, I’m referring to the pasty-faced, dead-eyed, I’d-rather-be-getting-a-tooth-drilled look that some singers have.  Not so with today’s choir. Look at their sunny expressions and the sparkle in their eyes.  That’s the joy of singing. Take a moment to check the light in your choir members’ eyes today.  I am convinced that a singer’s face affects the sound.
 

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  1. R. Daniel Earl says

    October 11, 2011 at 11:49 am

    Yes Scott – Faces do matter, as well as body, as well as memorization.  Now retired from full time teaching (high school) it was always a challenge to “engage” the whole person………..but when we/they did the music “breathed”.  Tom Carter has a book called “Choral Charisma” that should be a ‘standard’ text in all choral conducting classes and for those of us long past ‘conducting classes’ it should be in our library or better yet on our night stand and in our book bag.   All the best.
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