That is why an inaccurate ear for pitch results in a vocalist singing off pitch.
Built upon this is the exercise for teaching the vocalist to inhale quickly, hold his breath a brief space, and exhale as slowly as possible, as must be done in singing.
Under such circumstances, particularly, it is necessary for the vocalist to exercise large discretion and to aim for a conservative middle course, and especially so in a preliminary rehearsal.
The orchestra began the refrain of a popular song and the guest vocalist appeared wearing a white strapless evening gown.
He listened to the orchestra run through its selections, okayed the song the guest vocalist had chosen, then finished up with a long dialogue between Spud and himself.
This worthy man, excellent no doubt as a chef, took it into his head that he was a vocalist of the highest order, and that he only wanted opportunity to earn musical distinction.
Catherine the Great of Russia, her interview with the vocalist Gabrielli, i.
A gentleman from England asked a friend one night at the Naples theatre how he liked the vocalist in question.
In a new republican version of a lyrical work represented at the Opera Comique, le roi in one well known line was replaced by la loi, and the vocalist had to declaim La loi passait, et le tambour battait aux champs.
But in the hour of danger the poor contralto was saved by her thoroughly beautiful singing, and Pisaroni and Sontag, who as a vocalist also left nothing to desire, were equally applauded.
The vocalist proceeded to replace it; but before he could do so, laughter and hisses were heard from all parts of the house.
Hearing in what a painful situation their beloved vocalist found herself, the French army gallantly resolved to remedy it without delay.
Burlington, Countess, patroness of the vocalist Faustina, i.
This vocalist was for many years the glory and the chief support of the Opéra Comique, which, in 1762, combined with the Comédie Italienne to form but one establishment.
Delawar, Countess, patroness of the vocalist Faustina, i.
Mingotti, the celebrated vocalist of the Dresden opera, i.
Pembroke, Countess of, the leader of a party against the vocalist Faustina, i.
Gone are the days when the facile vocalist was supported by a small group of musicians intent upon a discreet accompaniment for the benefit of the singer's vocal exertions.
Far better is it for the vocalist to do a little well than to do much ineffectually.
He seemed to think that the privilege of improvising should be enjoyed only by a player on the violin, and that it would be the grossest presumption on the part of a vocalist so to indulge her imagination.
On receiving the note Sir Michael Costa requested the manager to return it to the singer, and at the same time declared that he or the offending vocalist must leave the Company.
He rose from the sofa, walked about with an elastic step, a cheerful air, and had he been anything of a vocalist would, I feel sure, have sung.
The notices next morning were sufficiently favourable; but it was evident that the career of the great vocalist was now, indeed, at an end.
Her parents, however, did not look upon the young man as a fit husband for such a prima donna as their daughter, and it was true that no vocalist on the stage seemed to have a brighter future before her.
Morris performs upon the piano-forte with fine skill and taste, and is a vocalist of excellent powers.
Madam Brown" was long regarded as the finest vocalist of her race in this country, while only a few of the other race could equal her.
It was out of his hands and another one stuck in its place by the time the indignant jurist and vocalist had reached the spot.
Knowledge, and a taste formed in good schools, must be the guide of the vocalist in the use of variations of tempo.
Every vocalist knows the difficulty experienced in singing very high tones to different syllables, each requiring a different conformation of the buccal cavity.
The white-eyed greenlet is a vocalist of such extraordinary versatility and power that one feels almost guilty in speaking of him under the title which stands at the head of this paper.
What could have set this fluentvocalist to practicing exercises of such an inferior, disconnected, piecemeal sort?
He wondered if that mysterious vocalist had entertained them.
From the yard the singer could not be seen, but Julia could be: she stood in the demurest attitude; and no one needed to behold the vocalist to know that the scoundrel was looking pointedly and romantically at her.
Moreover, upon that very moment the orchestra, in the hall beyond, thought fit to pay the recent vocalist a sickening compliment, and began to play "The Sunshine of Your Smile.
Hearing Philip Phillips sing impressed him deeply, when a young man, with the power of a gifted solo vocalist over assembled multitudes, but he did not fully realize his own capability till Dwight L.
He studied music, and became a vocalist and vocal composer.
What sopranovocalist is there who has not sung the suave cantilena, "Connais-tu le pays"?
Emile Paladhile, born in 1844, is the composer of the famous "Mandolinata," which has been warbled by every vocalistall the world over.
The form in which "Faust" was composed did not tend to differ in any appreciable degree from that adopted by Meyerbeer, with the exception that certain Italianisms and concessions to the vocalist were dispensed with.
Favart was greater as an actress than as a vocalist (which may be said of so many singers who have distinguished themselves at the Opéra Comique of Paris) is beyond doubt.
There had been at one time, he said, an eminent vocalist worshipped by the Parisian public.
The opera in which the diminutive vocalist made her debut was Paer's "Agnese," in which there was a child's part.
In 1837, as we have already said, her debut as a vocalist was made at Brussels.
Of the men, Jean Geraldy is deserving of mention, since he afterwards became well known both as vocalistin the operas of Rossini and as a composer of many popular songs and operettas.
A celebrated vocalist was suddenly indisposed just before the performance one night, and Lablache was induced to take his place and attempt the role.
Madame Castiglioni, a Contre-Altiste engaged as a supplementary vocalist at the next carnival in Venice, sang an aria in the second part, with a fine voice and a good school, and was rewarded with a general applause.
Lydia has a word, too, for the musical charms of the place, and seems pleased to have heard a celebrated vocalist despite the fact that her singing made her head ache through excess of pleasure.
The accompaniment was still running along soothingly and dreamily when the vocalist once more took up the theme, and was perfectly well satisfied with his treatment of it until he got to the refrain.
Early on a bright morning I was following one of the streets of the village, when, on reaching the suburbs, I was greeted by a blithe, dulcet trill which could come from no other vocalist than the song-sparrow.
Early one morning a few days later I heard a brilliant vocalist descanting from the top of a pump in a wide field among the foothills.
And so the conclusion was forced upon me that both strains emanated from the same throat, that each vocalist was its own respondent.
Its performance was quite an affecting little minor whistle, usually composed of four distinct notes, though sometimes the vocalist contented himself with a song of two or three syllables.
