The Art of Singing.
To the youthful amateur I would give a few hints whioh may prove useful. Above all things, when you sing, forget yourself and think only of the music, for singers for effect are unbearable; and if you wish to please and touch the hearts of your hearers, you should sing simply (without notes is best, and accompany yourself), and as naturally as you speak, both in expression of face and in articulation. All unnatural giimaces, either in the struggle to open your mouth sufficiently or iu the anxiety to produce a fasoinating (?) expression must be strenuously avoided. , . . . Sing as you really feel at the moment, and do not ‘try to feel what you sing’ as so many well-meaning teachera conjure you to do. * Feeling ’ will never come till it does so naturally, and without trying ; and do believe me that all travaille feeling is (like some old lady’s wig in one of Dickens’ inimitable stories) suoh a glaring deception that it ceases to be one, and takes nobody in,—The Countess of Munster, in the Woman’s World.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 867, 12 October 1888, Page 5
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