2019 – February
Title: From Bellini to Belt
Presenter: Mary Joy Nelson
Description: This presentation will focus on a specific branch of Contemporary Commercial voice
Source: SRMTA
This presentation will focus on a specific branch of Contemporary Commercial voice: the female belt voice. Classical pedagogical approaches will be compared and contrasted with those used to train the female belt voice, including similarities in breathing, posture, registration, tone quality/resonance, and range. The benefits of cross training for both the musical theatre and the classical voice student will be addressed. For the recital portion of the presentation, a performance of song selections will allow the listener to compare and contrast aurally the various sounds and approaches in classical and musical theatre singing described in the lecture.
