@Aquarius Nice! I wish more people actually sang and played real instruments in today's "music." The voice is really the best instrument and the ability to synchronize etc in choirs is amazing and has an amazing effect. This goes for regular instruments also when there wasn't the ability to artificially inflated volume so rely on style of play or adding numbers of the instrument, dissonance to create "artificial" volume changes, etc. I think we have gone backwards in our technology with regard to music.
I quite agree with you on this! There is a hilarious very talented musician/historian named Seth Rudetsky who has a show on the Broadway channel on Sirius/XM. He knows everything about the history and literature of Broadway musicals, and he plays piano brilliantly in addition to being truly hysterical. He has dozens of videos on YouTube where he does what he calls his Deconstructions of well-known singers and songs. While I laugh my way through them (he speaks very quickly, btw), I learn so much about vocal technique, singing, scoring, etc. He's wonderful, you might want to check him out.
He had a series of concerts at Town Hall where he would assemble a group of the very best people on Broadway and a small trio (bass, drums, Seth on piano) with an occasional additional musician. Thing is, everything was totally acoustic: the singers, the instruments, everythiing. Not a mike on stage anywhere. The acoustics in Town Hall are wonderful, and the concerts were spine-tinglingly wonderful, really thrilling. I loved them, especially because they were totally acoustic with no electronic mediation of the sound at all. They were a real treat!
He has guests singing on his XM Seth Speaks show on Friday nights (interviews, all interesting and funny), and accompanies whoever the guest is for their songs... again, acoustic (the studio holds maybe 10 guests, I went to a bunch of the tapings) other than being recorded for airplay. Delicious! +1 to you!
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