Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?- Page 2

[Tenorific2]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#25

Posted: 6/27/05 at 11:38pm

Sondheim, Lloyd Webber, and Rodgers & Hammerstein-- they do the legit tenor very nicely.

[StephanietheStar]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#26

Posted: 6/27/05 at 11:45pm

Alan Menken! ahha...I am a disney girl all the way.

I'm the typical ingenue voice though--so lots of stuff fits it.

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

[gwalke4]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#27

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:31am

I would say Mr. Sondheim, but I'd hardly dare approach some of the stuff that might "fit" my voice best for another thirty or forty years.

Every time I have sung "How Glory Goes" by Mr. Guettel from "Floyd Collins," I have received compliments about the song and about how well it allows the singer to express range and emotion. Auditors have told me that it suits my voice perfectly.

Of course, who really are these auditors? This wasn't professional or anything, and I would very strongly caution against walking into an audition with anything by Guettel, Brown, Sondheim, La Chiusa, or some of the newly (and difficultly) annotated Kander and Ebb. Your pianist will flip out (this has happened to me). Plus you probably will not come off well, as a lot of their music can fail sometimes to make a strong impression, especially if not sung impeccably and accompanied by a nitwit.

[BroomstickBoy]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#28

Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:55am

I'm not very much into legit singing because I have a rock-edged voice, but yet when I belt I have a bit of an operatic baritone tone going on, or something of that nature. But the ones that fit my voice quite nicely would be :

Jonathan Larson (duh)
Jason Robert Brown
Alan Menken
Andrew Lippa
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Schwartz
Robert Lopez/Jeff Marx (because Ave Q is a lot of fun to sing, hehe)
Elton John (Lion King, Aida)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (although I'm really not THAT into his work but still it's one I enjoy singing)
Leonard Bernstein

I also like most of the composers of the 40's, 50's and 60's, but besides Irving Berlin, I can't think of any others. It's late and I'm VERY sleepy, lol.

I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)

Updated On: 6/28/05 at 01:55 AM

[Jimmyojimmy]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#29

Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:05am

John Larson for me
Adam Guettell, Mindi Dickinson (little women), Sondheim fo sho!
ALW in POTO but I dont really like Cats. Does anyone know who wrote Funny Girl? I can kill Funny girl, Stephen Schwartz, Jeanine Tesori, Elton John, Rogers and Hamerstein.

[Phantom05]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#30

Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:57am

It's funny to see people type...."Andrew Lloyd Webber: Although I don't like his work that much"....Or something along those lines! It's like they think the entire board is going to kill them for liking Lloyd Webber....That's SAD, lol!

Later!

Phantom05

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[Justice]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#31

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:25am

Roger Miller -
I can sing every single role in Big River.

"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

re: Do you have a composer who's work just fits your voice?#32

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:49am

Mine is Larson and ALW... Its so much fun!!