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Posted on:October 13, 2018June 4, 2019Anecdotes Quotes Singers Teachers

Marchesi: style IV

Fourth and last part of the chapter that Blanche Marchesi devotes to the question of style and tradition in her book Singer’s pilgrimage, where she reveals the artistic legacy of her family.

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Posted on:October 7, 2018June 4, 2019Quotes Singers Teachers

Marchesi: on style III

Third part of the chapter that Blanche Marchesi devotes in her book Singer’s pilgrimage to the question of style and traditional performances in the art of singing.

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Posted on:September 17, 2018June 4, 2019Anecdotes Quotes Singers Teachers

Marchesi: style II

Second part of the chapter that Blanche Marchesi devotes in her book Singer’s pilgrimage to the question of style and tradition, speaking about conductors, accompanists and the reception of the audience.

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Posted on:July 18, 2018June 7, 2019Quotes Singers Teachers

Marchesi: on style I

Blanche Marchesi dedicates the twenty-fourth chapter of her book Singer’s pilgrimage to the question of style in the art of singing, including the inescapable issue of tradition.

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Posted on:April 20, 2018June 12, 2019Advice Anecdotes Singers Teachers

Marchesi: Wagner

At the end of twentieth chapter of her book Singer’s pilgrimage, Blanche Marchesi shares her thoughts on how the music of Wagner was incorporated in the art of singing and how it should and shouldn’t be sung.

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Posted on:March 29, 2018June 12, 2019Anecdotes Quotes Teachers

Marchesi: the teacher

In her book of 1923, the celebrated Blanche Marchesi approaches the extremely complex and challenging task of the singing master in two sections of the penultimate chapter: Teaching Teachers and Teachers’ Hardships.

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Posted on:January 27, 2018August 2, 2019Quotes Singers Teachers Treatises

Lehmann: art

The eminent Lilli Lehmann published in 1902 her singing treatise Meine Gesangskunst. In 1914 she wrote the prefaced for the revised edition and seized the opportunity to draw attention to the importance of technique.

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Posted on:December 30, 2017June 14, 2019Advice Anecdotes Composers Letters Teachers

Verdi and Boito: return

In October 1887, Arrigo Boito, librettist, composer and by then Verdi’s close friend and collaborator, wrote to the Maestro asking him for a list of old Italian composers whose study could help correct the deviated course in which the young music students were at the end of the 19th century.

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Posted on:December 21, 2017June 15, 2019Anecdotes Quotes Singers Teachers

Marchesi: legacy

In this passage of Singer’s pilgrimage, Blanche Marchesi describes her great aunt’s relationship with Beethoven and how the artistic legacy of the performance practices of his work reached her.

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Posted on:April 7, 2017June 30, 2019Advice Composers Letters Teachers

Verdi: torniamo

Following the death of Mercadante, Giuseppe Verdi was offered the direction of the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella in Naples. The celebrated composer declined and in this essential letter he refers to the place of tradition in the formation of young musicians.

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