Bottom line for me: the available technologies need to be used when they need to be used, they need to be used with good taste and musical goals, and they should never be used as an end in themselves. They can be abused, and often are. But they can also be used to enhance the music, and that's when they should be used.
I am very pleased to agree with this.
I have been teaching voice in NYC since the late 70's. My degree is in theatre, I was trained privately as a singer, and as a result I am more interested in personal performing (such as solo singing) or in musicals which have a very intimate feel (such as Lapine's The Wild Party) than I am in opera or large musical productions. I have directed a lot of cabaret performances, and my preference there is to keep the amplification at a minimum. My favorite productions have been those in which we have been able to use just a couple of mics pointed at the stage.
Nothing distresses me more than to hear someone whose voice has already been maximized in the hope of a Boadway career singing as loudly as possible into a mic that is turned up too high
I do appreciate how body mics on Broadway have made more intimate singing possible. I hate it, though, when the voice sounds distorted as a result.
Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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