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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 0:46:15 GMT -5
On another note...Grey's Anatomy was just on...I cried. This season is rather emotional... I'm just watching it. OMIGAWD SLAP-FIGHT! OMIGAWD WALTER'S FACE! ..."Take it back!" + fighting in background behind the chief = best thing ever. OH MY GOD DEAD BABY. *is sobbing like a mad...sobbing thing.* When the menfolks start crying, I start crying. |
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 0:58:18 GMT -5
T_T Does Josh Groban sing anything classical on there? Cuz if he did...*Shakes fist* Erm...not that I know of. Buncha Italian songs, but they sound pretty modern. And something from Romeo e Gulietta called Un Giorno Per Noi, but for all I know of classical music it could be some kind of B-rate themesong. |
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:00:52 GMT -5
WHAT??? I don't really know Romeo et Juliette too well but...WTF? If that aria/song is really from the opera by Charles Gounod...oh man. And plus...isn't he a "baritone"? The role of Romeo is a lyric tenor.
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 1:03:45 GMT -5
Nope, he's a tenor. Never heard him called a baritone.
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:07:27 GMT -5
I've been told he's a baritone and was yelled at for calling him one. WTH?
And is that song from the 1968 R&J with OLIVIA HUSSEY and that other hawt guy? XD The one composed by henry mancini? That's ok...as long as he doesn't TOUCH Gounod's stuff I'm cool with it all...*Phew*
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 1:11:53 GMT -5
Leonard Whiting? Guy butt? Yes yes. And -- tenor is all I've heard. But whaddaya know, Wikipedia says otherwise. Maybe he was a tenor when he started and is a baritone now... Does that happen in dudes when their testicles descend? He started pretty young... Random trivia: "He recently had a public break-up with his former girlfriend, January Jones, who can be seen in 'American Wedding' and 'Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'. " ...^__^ He's too young to be dating people. "Groban has repeatedly stated his love of both Unicorns and Fresca." ...  okay that's a wee bit fey. But kinda cute. |
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:18:17 GMT -5
He's probably a baritenor...yes, there's such a thing. It's actually the most common voice types out there. My dad's one and be refuses to call himself a tenor. "I'm a BARITONE GAWDDAMIT!!!" ME: *facepalm*
Er...about the tesiticles...that was back in the baroque ages when women weren't allowed to perform in theatre. They were called castrates and normally had a voice of a female mezzo-soprano (darker voice with a more clouded sound than a soprano).
I don't think he's developed enought to be catagorized yet. He need to get older with a LOT more coaching. He strains in all her upper notes and lacks breath support.
I CAN'T BELIEVE KATHERINE JENKINS CAME OUT WITH ANOTHER ALBUM!!! WHY THE F**K IS SHE SINGING PUCCINI!? WHY?!?! AND SHE SANG GRANADA IN ENGLISH!!! NOW, THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! Sorry for the caps...-_-; but it's just INFURIATING to hear that kind of BS! I'll be you a MILLION bucks that she didn't sing it in Spanish because her Spanish diction sucks. She sang Dvorak's Song to the Moon in english because she can't sing Czech for SH*T.
*FUMES*
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 1:23:22 GMT -5
Eeps. Glad I've not a clue who Jenkins is.
At least Groban's foreign pronunciation is pretty decent. My French-Canadian aunt was all thumbs-up over his rendition of Hymne a L'amour. Which--okay, Quebecois is not Parisian French, but it's a start. From what I know of Spanish and Italian, his is okay, too. I'm usually focusing too intensely on hitting notes and then end up forgetting how to pronounce things.
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:30:01 GMT -5
I used to do the same as well. And then my teacher did all these exercises with me and it's gotten much better. I've heard his Caruso and it made me cringe. My dad speaks Italian and she started to cuss at the computer. yea...he was going crazy since he half worships Pavarotti's version. Did Groban sing anything in German? Cuz...German's hella hard. |
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 1:35:39 GMT -5
German's ridiculously hard. He hasn't attempted it yet, that I know of.
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:42:21 GMT -5
Good. *wipes brow*
I tried singing Handel's "Dank Sei Dir Herr"...My teacher half laughed at me. T_T WHY ARE ALL MY MUSIC TEACHER'S EVIL!?!?!? lol!
Czech and Russian are the hardest. Spanish, Italian and French are the easiest...for me atleast. Some people find French to be the hardes thing because of all them crazy rules.
How long have you been singing?
OH! *throws confetti* YOU BROKE 1,000! YAY!
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 1:46:08 GMT -5
As a language group, the Romance languages are more mellifluous, I suppose, than the Germanic branches of the Indo-European language groups, which have more gutteral sounds and full-stops we don't have in English and rarely in French at times, which makes singing them difficult, as it cuts off the air for pronunciation and sound formation at a crucial place in the throat which restricts the ability one would have to make it project-able.
And...I've been singing all my life, I guess.
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:52:04 GMT -5
Your right~ French is very fluid and that's what makes it easier for me. But others find it harder because of all the rules...you can't roll your R's, you don't pronouce the last letter in a word if it's a consonant, etc. @_@ Czech and Russian are the hardest for me. Those two are just impossible. English no joke either. It's less flow-y than French or Italian and you always have to remember to enunciate the last consonant and what-not. I'm going to die in college as a music major. T_T AND I'm going to have to double! What style? Classical, right? |
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Post by Nadir on Nov 10, 2006 1:55:25 GMT -5
English is a Germanic language at it's core, despite having heavy Latin influences through the French brought to the Anglo-Saxons by the Normans after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, which is probably why it seems so difficult.
And as for style...
...I have no style.
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Post by Susanna on Nov 10, 2006 1:57:59 GMT -5
D*mn! You and you history! *feels inferior* XD lol! *giggles* What do you mean you have no style? Let's see...what type os genre do you like to sing the best? |
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okay that's a wee bit fey. But kinda cute.
