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Heldentenor singing America's Timeless Melodic Favorites
The music of America that touches the average American's sensibilities is heard mostly in the baritone or lyric soprano voices.
How different if a heroic-sized voice interprets that very same literature. As a for -instance, Melchior's rendition of 'The House I Live In,' is sanguine and stirring, matching the lyrics and the music far better than Sinatra's familiar version. Bryn Terfel, a bass baritone with the goal to and vocal heft admirable for performing Hans Sachs, has recorded the Soliloquy of Carousel, far outdoing the Sinatra effort.
Where patriotic music or derring-do are involved, settings where a heroic voice has the appropriate size and timbre, it sounds true.
America's Timeless Melodic Favorites is the topic for my survey, sung and annotated of America's catchy music, that has caught the public's fancy.
Our sustenance in times of gloom as well as in the 'salad days' is our Music! Nothing has the emotional uplift as Music and songs where words inspire, are the best medicine to rejuvenate and motivate. America's songs from the Revolutionary Days to today's musicals
I discuss and sing some of the best-loved tuneful icons. Folk and work songs, standards and love songs, patriotic hymns, spirited marching songs, ragtime and novelty songs, even songs composed for the movies, are the content of my presentation for the New Life Expo on Sunday evening March 23rd at the New Yorker Hotel at 34th Street and 8th Avenue, New York.
Kenneth Lane, Wagnerian heldentenor Festspielhaus 418A Main Street, Boonton, NJ 07005-0172 Tel: (973) 335-0111 Website: www. WagnerOpera.com
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