Random Acts of Flatness

[mangosteen]

Observation: If you happen to be a baritone with a lot of resonance and a larger-than-average vocal range, you will inevitably be tempted to take every note you see at the high end of your range and belt it out with the verve of a thousand Ethel Mermans. Please don't.

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[lachesis.livejournal.com]

><THIS close to a chili-covered laptop. THIS close. :)

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

Wow...that's not something I am going to get out of my head for awhile.

[xthread.livejournal.com]

Oh, but its oh so entertaining to hear about from a good safe distance (which, I conjecture, would be any distance at which you could not actually hear the event in question).

baritone faux-pas

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

It's even worse than that. The temptation exists even for those of us baritones who *don't* have a large range. :-)

Re: baritone faux-pas

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

The same goes for basses with a large range (but not much resonance). However, I have the (dis?)advantage of knowing that the high end of my range sounds absolutely horrid. Loud low notes, though...

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES!!!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

For! You! And! For!
...
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

Mermen.

[magid.livejournal.com]

There are underwater baritones?
:-)

[jss]

Hell yeah! :-)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Hey, there's a woman who occasionally busks in the Davis Square T who's just like that, except soprano!

[awfief.livejournal.com]

dear ghu, she's awful.

Note to my self: Don't do that with the low-end notes of altos (I can actually sing down to the middle tenor range without sounding like a foghorn. But I always belt it out southern black mama style).

[akawil]

C₂H₅LDS

[mangosteen]

You know, that should mean something to me. It looks very familiar, but I'm not placing it. Hint?

[akawil]

• It's related to your original post.
• It's a pun.
• It's JI's fault.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I feel your pain.

Hey, do you sing? Our little choir could use a few more male voices...

[mangosteen]

Ouch. I feel your pain.

To be completely accurate, it was my pain. It's more of a Note To Self than anything else. It was written after I had a solo audition and cratered very badly because I completely overpowered the accompanists. This is part nervousness, and part being out of practice.

In any event, yes, I do sing, and I do it reasonably well.

I'm already in an a cappella group, so making additional time commitments is not practical, but I'm curious. Which choir do you sing with?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Eek. Sorry.

I sing with a widdle tiny choir (about 15 voices) called New Century Voices. We performed in ChoralFest last year in King's Chapel with Pandora's Vox, the Seraphim Singers, and others, and had a concert all the way in West freakin' Roxbury. But now we rehearse at Swedenborg Chapel at Harvard, and are likely to have a concert there soonish.

I've always wanted to sing in an a cappella group. What's it take?