On Monday, October 2, 2000 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Ken B Lane wrote:
> The magnificent TRULY heldentenorian "Waelse, Waelse", that Melchior sang at a
> 1940 Met broadcast was not a whimsical display of Mekchior's talent, but an
> open letter to the public, a response that all the radio audience, as well as
> the Met Opera Auditorium heard, disputing Erich Leinsdorf's comment made
> publicly, "You don't have it anymore, retire."
> True, Rudolf Bing fired The Great Dane in 1950, but Melchior STILL had the
> ability to sing grandly to the year he died, at age 83.
> The imminent "coming" of another Melchior" are as likely as the "coming" of
> another Caruso.
> Melchior was touted here and abroad as the Wagnerian Caruso, a well-deserved
> compliment.
> Caruso would stand in the wings during some Wagner performances and hum some of
> the music. The Wagnerian opera that Caruso is recorded as having most admired
> was Tristan.
> Of all my dream voice moments about other singers that, Caruso singing
> Tristan,would have to be the most "far out" awesome dream of all.
> His Loengrin sung at the Teatro Colon in Italian was the closest Caruso came to
> performing in public any Wagner.
> Reportedly, he felt the consonants in Wagner's music made him feel that his
> natural timbre brilliance, in the overtones, upper partials, would be lost, if
> only temporarily.
> Listening to Melchior live as I did so many times, the brilliance, silver and
> gold, of that voice seemed to come out of another age, so immensely superior it
> was to anyone else's voice.
> Three of my own voice teachers, Friedrich Schorr and Karin Branzell and
> Alexander Kipnis sang many, many times with Melchior and they are on commercial
> CDs as well as private recordings avsilsble to the general public.
> If one would be interested as to what Schorr, Kipnis, and Branzell had to tell
> me of Melchior lore and their understanding after "talking shop' with the Great
> Dane, aboutt his vocal technique, attend my FREE lecture this friday October
> 6th.
> Free to those attending my 2 free lecture/singing demonstrations will be
> demonstration of my "Vocal Scope" in which one can fully protocol the
> correctives for singing voice "defects."
> No gimmicks, no obligations, no name asked for lists.
> My first such presentation will be at the Vocal Record Collectors' Society [the
> oldest, largest and most respected organization of its kind] meeting on Friday
> October 6th at 8 PM at the Phillips Auditorium of the United Methodist Christ
> Church on Park Avenue and 60th Street.
> My next event will be the "Heroic Singing Nurtures Robust Good
> Health"/"Wagner's Music Halo: An Aura of Galvanizing Energy" at the New Life
> Expo [one of the most prestigious and well-attended 3 day Health Expos,
> anywhere] on Sunday October 22nd at 2 PM at the New Yorker Hotel at 34th Street
> and 8th Avenue.
> You won't be bored and will come away, if you participate in my audience
> participation-encouraged part of the program, gleefully aware of how to bring
> out the best in your own singing.
> Hope to see as many of you as can arrange to attend.
> Kenneth Bennett Lane
> E-mail: kenb...@aol.com
> To chat: (973) 335-0111

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