The Grand Manner. Can you imagine hearing this live in Carnegie Hall?? That rolling tone and crystal-clear enunciation! He alternates legato and declamatory phrases with complete authority and a real grandezza. Yet the interpretation has tenderness, with some really beautiful soft high notes. I think he was a great singer.
Whitehill is very impressive. Records like this sound so much more exciting when they they don't have the life filtered out of them by modern engineers.
Clarence Whitehill!! I used to hear about him from my voice teacher Bernard U. Taylor who came to NYC in 1912 and hear him live many times--including Elijah--Taylor had studied with Horatio Conell who was a pupil of Stockhausen in Frankford-am Mein Germany..Stockhausen had studied with the great Manuel Garcia II and was of course a friend of Brahms--Connells book Master Vocal Exercises is still in print and many of the exercises are directly from Stockhausen via Garcia--however the BEST version of this i have ever heard was by Louis Sudler (the Donald Trump of Chicago ILL) who was not the greatest singer but the greatest total interpreter of Elijah one could imaging--tall handsome and imposing and in his early 60s when i heard him i was in the courus of the Handel Oratorio Society at Augustana College in Rock Island ILL--what a great figure he cut with his height and beautiful long white hair--he to ME will ALWAYS be Elijah! Addio del Passato and Bravo to this wonderful interpreter who made the character totally come alive for me!! Later when i went to that school i won first place in his Sudler Vocal Scholarship and he came all the way from Chicago to sign the check in person! --T. Rexdale. Memorie's Gift!!
I randomly checked my videos and found about a half dozen posted over a 4 year period with the same problem. Also checked the HELP section and there have been a number of similar complaints.
beautifully sung and so clear and easy to understand. The twonk who wrote that his vowels are disgusting cannot be well acquanted with acoustic recordings!
An audio engineer who worked for RCA for years tells me that its an illusion. He claims that its actually distortion that gives the greater sence of presence. Whatever.
The Grand Manner. Can you imagine hearing this live in Carnegie Hall?? That rolling tone and crystal-clear enunciation! He alternates legato and declamatory phrases with complete authority and a real grandezza. Yet the interpretation has tenderness, with some really beautiful soft high notes.
I think he was a great singer.
Whitehill is very impressive. Records like this sound so much more exciting when they they don't have the life filtered out of them by modern engineers.
Really Nice! Excellent! Thanks for posting this!
He may have the most perfectly controlled vibrato I've ever heard.
I have this Bass on an early G&T singing 'Why do the Nations?'from the 'Messiah'. I noticed a few of his records listed in the 1918 HMV catalogue.
Clarence Whitehill!! I used to hear about him from my voice teacher Bernard U. Taylor who came to NYC in 1912 and hear him live many times--including Elijah--Taylor had studied with Horatio Conell who was a pupil of Stockhausen in Frankford-am Mein Germany..Stockhausen had studied with the great Manuel Garcia II and was of course a friend of Brahms--Connells book Master Vocal Exercises is still in print and many of the exercises are directly from Stockhausen via Garcia--however the BEST version of this i have ever heard was by Louis Sudler (the Donald Trump of Chicago ILL) who was not the greatest singer but the greatest total interpreter of Elijah one could imaging--tall handsome and imposing and in his early 60s when i heard him i was in the courus of the Handel Oratorio Society at Augustana College in Rock Island ILL--what a great figure he cut with his height and beautiful long white hair--he to ME will ALWAYS be Elijah! Addio del Passato and Bravo to this wonderful interpreter who made the character totally come alive for me!! Later when i went to that school i won first place in his Sudler Vocal Scholarship and he came all the way from Chicago to sign the check in person! --T. Rexdale. Memorie's Gift!!
I have heard this same thing from some other authorities on sound engineering.
I randomly checked my videos and found about a half dozen posted over a 4 year period with the same problem. Also checked the HELP section and there have been a number of similar complaints.
Its UA-cam, not my posting.
beautifully sung and so clear and easy to understand. The twonk who wrote that his vowels are disgusting cannot be well acquanted with acoustic recordings!
An audio engineer who worked for RCA for years tells me that its an illusion. He claims that its actually distortion that gives the greater sence of presence. Whatever.
please repost