Bric Slade MC 10/1/13

Bric Slade MC 10/1/13

Amber Denslow

Breathing is smooth and balloon like. The placement of the vowel could be more spacious in the back of the throat. It is causing intonation problems. Expressively... Ok. She could read the text and be more expressive. The piece is difficult because it is all a cappella and she kind of moves all over the place, its a challenge to stay on the pitch. Dr. Dewey encouraged her to keep the pitch in her head that she keeps returning to and it fixed a lot of the intonation issues. Loosening up helped her up quite a bit too.

 

Mariah Boyer

There isn’t much expansion in the lower body when she breaths and you can here it when she sings. She can open up her mouth quite a bit more than she is. When she goes for high notes she closes off her mouth more. She doesn’t trust her voice when she actually opens her mouth on the high notes. She is clenching on top. I think she is more worried about technique than expression. She was told to think about the text, listen to the music, and figure out her strategies. There is much communication in the harmonies of the piano part that she could draw upon to communicate to the audience. When she thought about these things she seemed a lot more desperate. It was quite a change. It added so much more emotion. Then she was told to “bring the audience the verb” by understanding the verbs of the song.

Ben Shaw

His Sound was very dark. I feel he is putting a ton of work into everything, which may have something to do with the fact that his upper body wasn’t very loose. He was given an exercise where he sat in a chair and leaned over like a ragdoll which I feel freed up a lot of energy. It really improved on his power in his voice. It sounded more free, but in control. By working on the gesture of inhalation too I feel he will improve.