THE BATON TWIRLERS

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I AM THANKFUL FOR LIVING AT A TIME WHEN IT WAS POSSIBLE TO STUDY WITH THE GREATEST !!! What we do not hear today--witness the just concluded spectacular telecasting of the Macy's Day Parade, pharyngeal singing with "squillo." To hear what I have mentioned, visit my website www.WagnerOpera.com.

My vocal training with "Met" Opera legends: Friedrich Schorr, perhaps the
greatest Wagnerian baritone, his Hans Sachs and "Ring" operas' Wotan
considered without peer; Frieda Hempel, the "Met" Opera coloratura who partnered
Caruso in Buenos Aires as well as the "Met" and Covent Garden and premiered the
Met's "L'Elisir" with Caruso on December 30th, 1916 and was the first
Berlin and "Met" Marschallin, a role usually given to dramatic sopranos;
Maregarete Matzenauer, "Met" Opera singer partnering Caruso as Delilah, Amneris and
Fides, and singing both the mezzo and dramatic sopranos in the Wagner
oeuvre, Brunnhilde, Brangaene, Isolde, Kundry, and many others, singing in 5
languages: Russian, German, French, Italian and English; Karin Branzell, "Met"
Opera mezzo who succeeded Matzenauer as mezzo, singing all the Wagner operas
opposite Melchior; Alexander Kipnis, "Met" Opera basso famous for his Wagner,
Verdi, Mozart and Moussorgsky roles and his performance in the Hugo Wolf
and Brahms "rep"; John Brownlee, "Met" Opera baritone in the Puccini, Wagner
and Humperdinck roles; Enrico Rosati , teacher of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi,
Melchior and Lanza ; and GennaroBarra Caracciolo, a student himself with Giovanni
Martinelli, with Mandolini in Italy, the head voice teacher at La Scala with
students Enrico Campi, Vladimir Atlantov, Gino Penno and Gianni Raimondi.

They ALL had different approaches technically but from each I took what
worked best for me.

We all must sing with our OWN voice with a technique that provides us with
control of our voice at all levels of dynamics, vocal range, flexibility
and
stamina and precise articulation of the words and precise pitch, with ease.

Kenneth Bennett Lane
Wagnerian heldentenor
Director, Richard Wagner Music Drama Institute, where all the Wagner AND
Shakespeare roles are taught
Website: www. WagnerOpera.com, where at "Recorded Selections" one can
download 37
complete selections, "Carnegie Hall LIVE" from my 3 solo and one Joint
Recital, with a dramatic soprano, concerts in Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern
Auditorium. complete selections from my 3 solo and one Joint Recital. The
dramatic soprano was Norma Jean Erdmann, whose uncle was Dr. John Erdmann, head
surgeon of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, who SAVED CARUSO'S
life, operating on him at his residence , an apartment house on Park
Avenue, a few blocks south of Grand Central Station. Caruso had pleurisy.
Thick, foul smelling fluids exploded from his chest cavity when Dr.
Erdmann and his team of surgeons and nurses opened up his chest to relieve his
screaming in pain.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE !!!