| re: "Soliloquy" from the new Carousel recording | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:14 pm EDT 08/09/24 | |
| In reply to: re: "Soliloquy" from the new Carousel recording - GrumpyMorningBoy 07:58 pm EDT 08/09/24 | |
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| Hi, GMB. The passage you mention is marked poco rit., but I think many singers rit. a bit more than poco. I would say even Nixon does. Usually, as with O'Hara, this is clearly worked out with the musical director. But I'm not talking about rubato or backphrasing. I'm talking about singing wrong rhythms. Rubato does not in and of itself mean singing the wrong rhythms. Composers frequently ask for rubato, but I'm sure they generally expect or at least hope that the rhythms will be sung correctly within the rubato. And I wouldn't say what O'Hara does is backphrasing since she and the conductor are always together and in any case what bothers me has nothing to do with singing behind the beat. If anything, I think she gets slightly ahead of the beat, not behind it, but she never falls ahead or behind for more than a second because these phrases move quickly and are all in one breath. To my ears, O'Hara smooths out the rhythms on at least these lines: “All my good wishes go with you tonight” “Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star” “Be brave and faithful and true” “Don’t cry, young lovers, whatever you do” “All of my mem’ries are happy tonight” The only line of those where I think Andrews does not sing the right rhythms is “Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star." As I said, it's not just O'Hara. Mazzie did it, too, and so did Renee Fleming when I heard her sing it. It's probably the fault of the musical directors and pianists, not the singers. I feel as confident as I reasonably can be that Rodgers would have told them all, "Sing the right rhythms. If I wanted it the way you're singing it, I would have written it that way." |
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