foregathered there―beauties of form and beauties of smile―the dying Duende triumphed as it had to, trailing the rusted knife blades of its wings along the ground.
The arrival of the Duende always presupposes a radical change in all the forms as they existed on the old plane. It gives a sense of refreshment unknown until then, together with that quality of the just-opening rose, of the miraculous, which comes and instils an almost religious transport.
But the Duende―where is the Duende? Through the empty arch enters a mental air blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, seeking new landscapes and unfamiliar accents; an air bearing the odour of child's spittle, crushed grass, and the veil of a Medusa announcing the unending baptism of all newly-created things.
Two very famous voice teachers, Cicely Berry and Cornelius Read, both wrote copiously on the topic……..here are a couple of quotes from them………
If we let go, we release our own sound. Otherwise, we create the acceptable (Berry)
Do not present the reason for language, but rather the discovery of a thought (Berry)
If you release people from the constraints of making only literal sense, making the words behave intelligently, you release a deeper and more subconscious response (Berry)
Breathing is the most direct means we have for contacting the psyche and is a reacting agent which functionally absorbs and reflects the data accumulated by the body and the mind (Reid)
By restoring circulation of energy to the entire body through release of the breathing mechanism, one is made to feel alive. This feeling immediately reflects itself in the response of the vocal organs in singing. The throat loses its feeling of tightness (Reid)
The arrival of the Duende always presupposes a radical change in all the forms as they existed on the old plane. It gives a sense of refreshment unknown until then, together with that quality of the just-
But the Duende―where is the Duende? Through the empty arch enters a mental air blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, seeking new landscapes and unfamiliar accents; an air bearing the odour of child's spittle, crushed grass, and the veil of a Medusa announcing the unending baptism of all newly-
Two very famous voice teachers, Cicely Berry and Cornelius Read, both wrote copiously on the topic……..here are a couple of quotes from them………
If we let go, we release our own sound. Otherwise, we create the acceptable (Berry)
Do not present the reason for language, but rather the discovery of a thought (Berry)
If you release people from the constraints of making only literal sense, making the words behave intelligently, you release a deeper and more subconscious response (Berry)
Breathing is the most direct means we have for contacting the psyche and is a reacting agent which functionally absorbs and reflects the data accumulated by the body and the mind (Reid)
By restoring circulation of energy to the entire body through release of the breathing mechanism, one is made to feel alive. This feeling immediately reflects itself in the response of the vocal organs in singing. The throat loses its feeling of tightness (Reid)
