http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/04/01/classical-music-review-%e2%80%98an-american-sampler%e2%80%99/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/04/01/classical-music-review-%e2%80%98an-american-sampler%e2%80%99/#comment-489 Ruby Meyer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:08:52 +0000 http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/04/01/classical-music-review-%e2%80%98an-american-sampler%e2%80%99/#comment-489 For the most part, the singers did very well technically, but the dynamic range seemed to me to be limited to quite soft or very loud. One wished mightily for subtleties of presentation. Despite all that wonderful music, it didn't live and breathe. (The audience as a whole clapped only politely, I noticed.) I suspect that the director, soulful as he may feel himself to be, is unable to translate the emotional centers of the music for his singers, as if the public performance of the pieces takes precedence over the search for the musical heart. For the most part, the singers did very well technically, but the dynamic range seemed to me to be limited to quite soft or very loud. One wished mightily for subtleties of presentation. Despite all that wonderful music, it didn’t live and breathe. (The audience as a whole clapped only politely, I noticed.) I suspect that the director, soulful as he may feel himself to be, is unable to translate the emotional centers of the music for his singers, as if the public performance of the pieces takes precedence over the search for the musical heart.

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