Cheryl Studer's lecture on Articulation part 1/3. Great for all singers from beginner to advanced, audience members who want to understand this art and also teachers.
It's nice to see Cheryl Studer again... ... I have a wonderful CD of her performing Wagner & Strauss. For some reason, I feel like I want to watch an episode of "The Facts of Life."
though not what I was browsing for, the relevance of this clip to me is profound given I was 3 weeks in a coma after a bicycle accident. We were lucky to have Cheryl Studer visit us in 2013 for some masterclasses in our part of Germany & hope she will be back again :-)
Thank you so much for making the effort to upload, made this available online, and share with us this wonderful video. Thank you, it is very kind of you, and it helps me a lot!
@@MusicHala Well, Venus is Retrograding now. No surprise we meet old friends, or revisit memory lane during this period of time. Anyway, all the best and thank you once again.
The first exercise in the Master Vocal Exercises by Horatio Connell Sing whole tones changing vowels without moving your mouth or chin. The more you do them with time they start sounding normal.
I find that ee and oo can be tricky because they are the most extreme vowels either way. Ee can become ih if one is lazy, while oo can be tight for the reasons she explains.
I like her singing, some of it a huge amount, but this is simply not true - I mean, yes, keep the open throat, but you can keep an open throat even during a hum. and since you HAVE to make sustanined sounds like m, z, v, f, sh, you still need the throat to stay open during those times. Surely she is not saying that you let the throat close for the brief instant of the closed consonant and then somehow open the throat again a millisecond later. All this partially true advice does is convince a lot of singers to abandon expressive or even audible diction. There are plenty of great singers who combine have great diction and whose jaw moves freely through closed and open sounds. Maybe above the staff a woman can sing open jawed all the time, but the fact is, dictionaries refers to vowels as open and closed vowels for a reason. Visual and aural evidence: Watch some of her own videos; watch other singers here and notice that they are so often doing the opposite of what she preaches here. So I say, the key is to get that open throat and then learn how to keep it open even if you your jaw relaxes shut for many sounds. There is even a Te Kanawa teaching video on youtube where she explains that you MUST learn to keep the throat open on a hum, even in the passagio, because it creates the most free sound of all if you can do this. Reading "Greater Singers on Great Singing" only convinced me that some singers are great but not necessarily aware that they are not doing what they preach. :--)
wahaha, making singers understand that science is actually not an opinion, but neutral knowledge, oh man..... some singers even think garlic and lemon can "cure" virussen...... if i were a teacher i would demand from my students to a) do a university study next to it so that they get to know the ethics and the system of science b) read a book every month about epistemology and anatomy
One of the great NON-DIVA sopranos, and an exceptional teacher.
It's nice to see Cheryl Studer again... ... I have a wonderful CD of her performing Wagner & Strauss. For some reason, I feel like I want to watch an episode of "The Facts of Life."
though not what I was browsing for, the relevance of this clip to me is profound given I was 3 weeks in a coma after a bicycle accident. We were lucky to have Cheryl Studer visit us in 2013 for some masterclasses in our part of Germany & hope she will be back again :-)
It was nice to hear her sing again...if only for a few seconds when she demonstrated
Thank you so much for making the effort to upload, made this available online, and share with us this wonderful video. Thank you, it is very kind of you, and it helps me a lot!
Hi James! So sorry for the very late response, I'm just seeing all these comments now. So happy you enjoy the video Xx
@@MusicHala Well, Venus is Retrograding now. No surprise we meet old friends, or revisit memory lane during this period of time.
Anyway, all the best and thank you once again.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats exactly what I needed. Many thanks for uploading
No worries! I'm so glad it's still helpful Xx
I really enjoyed this and agree with everything Ms.Studer says !
Yes she is fantastic X x
Thank you! Really helpful!
Amazing soprano!
Thank you very, very much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first exercise in the Master Vocal Exercises by Horatio Connell
Sing whole tones changing vowels without moving your mouth or chin. The more you do them with time they start sounding normal.
I find that ee and oo can be tricky because they are the most extreme vowels either way. Ee can become ih if one is lazy, while oo can be tight for the reasons she explains.
Hi Hala!
Thanks for making this video available to singers. If I may ask, do you have the script she shared with the audience?
Grazie , bellissimo e utilissimo. Non è possibile avere un link dove trovare le dispense che la signora vi ha dato!?
I like her singing, some of it a huge amount, but this is simply not true - I mean, yes, keep the open throat, but you can keep an open throat even during a hum. and since you HAVE to make sustanined sounds like m, z, v, f, sh, you still need the throat to stay open during those times. Surely she is not saying that you let the throat close for the brief instant of the closed consonant and then somehow open the throat again a millisecond later. All this partially true advice does is convince a lot of singers to abandon expressive or even audible diction. There are plenty of great singers who combine have great diction and whose jaw moves freely through closed and open sounds. Maybe above the staff a woman can sing open jawed all the time, but the fact is, dictionaries refers to vowels as open and closed vowels for a reason. Visual and aural evidence: Watch some of her own videos; watch other singers here and notice that they are so often doing the opposite of what she preaches here. So I say, the key is to get that open throat and then learn how to keep it open even if you your jaw relaxes shut for many sounds. There is even a Te Kanawa teaching video on youtube where she explains that you MUST learn to keep the throat open on a hum, even in the passagio, because it creates the most free sound of all if you can do this. Reading "Greater Singers on Great Singing" only convinced me that some singers are great but not necessarily aware that they are not doing what they preach. :--)
wahaha, making singers understand that science is actually not an opinion, but neutral knowledge, oh man..... some singers even think garlic and lemon can "cure" virussen...... if i were a teacher i would demand from my students to a) do a university study next to it so that they get to know the ethics and the system of science b) read a book every month about epistemology and anatomy