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05/17/2006
recits
You know, I really don’t like singing recits. They’re boring and unmelodic and it’s flat out hard to do them in a way that is interesting for the audience. They are like a transitional sentence. Necessary perhaps, but not art. They are the driveway for art. So what do I get stuck with? A bunch of recits. I mean, Mendelssohn had delusions of opera and since he couldn’t be successful at writing opera he turned an oratorio into an opera without costumes or setting. It’s just so much ornamentation.
But, Ok. I’m singing Mendelssohn. I can live with that. But I’m not going to roll my “R’s.” I don’t care what the conductor says. How pretentious is it to sing “Thither hide thee at Cherith’s brook” and roll the R in Cherith and the R in brook. I’m singing a recit for heaven’s sakes. I already sound like a dweeboid. If I have to roll my r’s I’m going to sound like a pretentious dweeboid. I have to sing the word “thither!” Isn’t that dumb enough?
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