A BEAUTIFUL FACE

 

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"She had once heard an enthusiastic musician, out of patience with a gifted bungler, declare that a fine voice is really an obstacle to singing properly; and it occurred to her that it might perhaps be equally true that a beautiful face is an obstacle to the acquisition of charming manners."

                                                             Henry James -"The American."

There is a fine line between a singer who was blessed with a beautiful voice and the one who sings beautifully. There is more to singing than possessing a beautiful voice. One must find the vocal beauty hidden WITHIN. Being confident that a beautiful voice will be enough, the singer can suffer a short career.

Contemporary singing dismisses the rules of Nature - being urged to manufacture the voice physically.

Watching the faces of Contemporary singers we see the distortions of the jaw and lips to pronounce words. Unfortunately, the listener doesn't hear focused vowels - no LEGATO singing. It is the focused sound that carries the words. A ventriloquist does not use the face or the lips to pronounce words, and yet we hear them clearly and powerfully. There is no interference from the muscles of the face and neck. However, once the sound is grounded in the body, the face can now pronounce all it wants.  

                                                                 REMEMBER AN INNER SMILE. 

                                          THE FACE REMAINS BEAUTIFUL AND TOTALLY FLEXIBLE.

Tom Schilling, May 7, 2020

Tom SchillingVOCALWAY STUDIOS