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Posted: 1/26/07 at 11:29am

from Grand Hotel... it's one of my audition songs... but would be considered a ballad or an up-tempo? I mean it's crooonie... but for an audition I can't decide which category I want to use it for... I'd have to have the complete opposite kind of song for which ever I chose to be it's antithesis... help? I'm kind of in the same boat for Glory from Floyd Collins...

that's a really big mic...

Updated On: 1/26/07 at 11:29 AM

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 1:13pm

Love Can't Happen is considered a ballad.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 1:49pm

I sing it too and I use it for my ballad. Instead of using tempo as a gague I always use subject matter. It always seems that when they are asking for an uptempo they want something fun and light instead of heavy pathos big belting anthems. While Love can't happen is about a happy subject matter it still is more if a ballad. That's just my $0.02

Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 2:54pm

I guess it would probably be considered a ballad, but it does move and has a rather percussive accompaniment. It's subject matter (and long vocal lines) probably keep it in Ballad territory though. Probably could work in a pinch as up-tempo as long as your real ballad had enough contrast.

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 3:20pm

It's also in 3/4 which makes a 16 bar cut a little weird.

Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 3:20pm

It's also in 3/4 which makes a 16 bar cut a little weird.

Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 5:46pm

I love this song....

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/26/07 at 8:59pm

Not on topic, sorry, but this is one of my favorite songs, it is so beautiful.

re: Love Can't Happen...

Posted: 1/27/07 at 12:10am

It is a ballad, and it's a gorgeous piece...especially for an audition. I haven't listened to my Grand Hotel OBC in a while, but now I'm tempted to go dig it up and listen to this song.

3/4 time is a bit tricky, but the main refrain of it - "love can't happen quite so quickly, not unless I dreamed you, wonderfully and dearly..." could be used as a showcase.

"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

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