Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1917 — Inspirational Singing. [ARTICLE]

Inspirational Singing.

How Is it that we listen with such pleasure to certain singers and with indifference to others? Those in the second category frequently have finer voices, and their art is apparent, but the mystic something is absent. The vocal technic may be perfect, and intonation and pronunciation all that can be desired, but if that essential personal magnetism is not displayed, the effect on the audience is small. Some singers show their training, these possess what we call “made voices,” not that we in any way disparage training, success is impossible without it, but the real artist conceals this, in the higher art of interpretation, by becoming so absorbed’ add engrossed in the spirit of the song, that the technical side of singing is overshadowed and lost, in the fascination of hearing the words brought- to life and painted With a simplicity that is understood by all who hear.—Ex-