I have had the singular pleasure of never having had to sing anything by the man. I think my choir director in college probably disliked him for the same reasons I do.
I don't think he believed in vocal ranges below tenor, given the parts he wrote for basses/baritones.
Did he make you play around in the stratosphere? Or did he stick you on one note all the way through the piece? We had a piece like that one semester (a setting of Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star") where the sopranos just hung out on, like, two Fs above middle C for the ENTIRE SONG. It made me feel sorry for the basses, who seemed to have to do that (on a more reasonable note) for everything else we sang.
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Date: 2011-07-12 05:42 am (UTC)I don't think he believed in vocal ranges below tenor, given the parts he wrote for basses/baritones.
Did he make you play around in the stratosphere? Or did he stick you on one note all the way through the piece? We had a piece like that one semester (a setting of Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star") where the sopranos just hung out on, like, two Fs above middle C for the ENTIRE SONG. It made me feel sorry for the basses, who seemed to have to do that (on a more reasonable note) for everything else we sang.