Hi, I just wanted to post to say isn't classical singing amazing in how many subtleties there are to fine-tuning your technique ? 🙂 I have a good teacher and constantly try to improve on my own too, and have been taking it seriously for about 14 years, but every week I feel like I still discover new things. It would be hard to explain to a non-singer who thinks you just need a 'good voice' and to open your mouth and sing...
I hope this isn't the wrong forum for this or too political, but as a British trans woman living in France and on the 10th anniversary of the referendum, I was just pondering how Britain seem sadly to be champions at taking actions based on stupid ideologies and that just harm rights and cause upset but don't actually achieve anything useful. When it comes to Brexit, I'm not saying no one voted for it for good reasons (I know one person for example that did as she thought it would enable Britain to pass a higher standard of animal rights laws), but all it mostly did was initially please some people who believed it would mean there would be fewer foreigners and more 'sovereignty', but in reality immigration increased and all that really happened was significantly more difficulty for businesses trading with EU countries and for Brits who want to spend part of their lives living and working in the EU (and EU citizens wanting to spend time in the UK). And the recent trans laws will do nothing but cause upset and difficulty to British trans people (and visiting or immigrating ones) who feel less safe and respected, and please a few transphobes, but won't actually do anything to make cisgender women any safer than before or improve their lives in any way 😒
Hi there, I have a question about singing classically in French, please. In traditional poetry as well as, I think, classical singing, normally words ending in - ée are pronounced ay-eu. However as someone who speaks French in daily life I sometimes don't do that and just do é-é, as it sounds more like how you would actually say it normally. I'm thinking of for example in Le spectre de la rose, which I'm working on, where it says 'tu me pris, encore emperlée... des pleurs d'argent de l'arrosoir'. Is it ok to sing just é-é or will classical singing purists all think 'she sang that wrongly' ? Or maybe it's one of those things like singing rolled or grasseyé Rs and there is the more traditional way and then the more 'natural' way, and they're both ok these days?
Hi, would you say one of the biggest advantages of non-dual awareness is less fear of death? I wouldn't say I've had some amazing non-dual awakening personally, it is just something I gently circle around, but it seems to me that if you feel deeply you are an interconnected part of a whole, then whether or not anything of your specific individuality, identity and stream of awareness and memories etc continues after death, I guess, becomes less of a big deal? Do you find that to be the case?
I love singing Dalila's arias from Camilles Saint-Saens' French opera Samson et Dalila (about the biblical hero who was betrayed by his lover Delilah). I think of her as putting her love for her people the Philistines first, and that's why she betrays Samson (who is their enemy).. But I think of her also as having some fondness for him anyway... In this aria from the start of the opera she sings about the beauty of spring and says she misses him as they used to see each other but he isn't around anymore, and she tries to interest him again. I sing this (and the other famous song from this opera, Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix) with sincerity in the feelings as I feel it is the best way to put it across. You could also say maybe she is just a good actress.. I was pleased with how my voice was this day.
I have a feeling Chat has become more serious in tone and is less likely to joke and use emojis etc.. I prefer a lighter more conversational tone. I guess maybe I need to add to my personalisation description more to stress this?