"operatic tenors" to me sounds like he's making a
distinction between those who are trained to project
their voices with the aid of their diaphragm - a
brisk, penetrating, back-of-the-hall-reaching, royal
shakespeare company voice - as opposed to someone
speaking (singing) normally.
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> > Mark
> > I would personally doubt whether some Irish folk
> singers are
> > completely untrained. Perhaps it is not a
> scholarly training, but
> > some (not of course the present singer) that I
> have heard make such
> > extraordinary vocalizations I can't think this is
> just the result of
> > a spontaneous breaking into song, as it were.
> >
>
> I totally agree, with what you are saying. It also
> totally destroys Stings
> simplistic "normal voice" comments. Today I heard
> Sting say on radio that most
> Dowland recordings were by operatic tenors. Maybe I
> am wrong, but when someone
> says operatic tenor then I start thinking of Domingo
> etc. I don't think of a
> singer such as Paul Agnew as an operatic tenor.
>
> He is trying to give the illusion that there is the
> Sting style and then
> Pavarotti sings Dowland I think there are a lot of
> performances betweeen these
> extremes and even more extreme than Sting.
>
> best wishes
> Mark
>
>
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