The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-07
ADVICE TO
YOUNG SINGERS.
By Gadski, the Famous singer.
Be natural in your pose.

Be natural In your pose.
xou Will never get the best effecti
from your voice II you take tense at
titude while singing or IL you keey
tense.
What the doctors call relaxation mus
come, and when you relax you will fee
very fatigued. Whereas II you haa
sung as you walk or stand you would
have no fatigue at all.
The voice does not flow 80 sweetly
when the muscles Of the voice are
drawn tight, and the chest does moi
give out Its best tones when you have
| squared your shoulders too far back.
Teach yourself how to let 60 of your
muscles.
You don't know what an excellent
help 1t will always be to you, not only
In singing. but in everything else.
Smile, be pleasant. laugh II you can.
and use your eyes.
You are not going to kill any one.
You are not intent upon some dread
ful deed, and yet, assure you, many
young ladies look that way as soon as
they begin to sing.
There are certain difficult cadenzas
that need a certain figure and move
ment of the head, that even a great
artist In acting will have to give, but
she Will make the expression on her
face natural and not as II she were
running at you to brighten you.
No singer needs to make face at all.
A singer must open her mouth very
wide, and often twist 1t little at the
corners. but she can learn to do this
without bad effect. and you who
know the musical part Of singing
should learn this physical part at once.
DO not fix your eyes with stare on
nothing and keep that stare up
throughout the whole song. Look at
the people you are singing to- look at
your music, or, II you have none, look
down at the acccmpanist, and then at
your audience, all in a natural way, as
II you were talking.
Don't get excited over your high
notes and the runs, because If you do
you will not do them half SO we'll and
your audience will see what an effort
1t is for you to sing. and they will not
enjoy 1t as much.
Behind your plano have a mirror,
and whenever you practice look at
yourself in the mirror.
You will not like your looks when
singing, and so, little by little, you will
learn to smile and to nod your head and
to give meaning to your words. If
you have been sir ging long time and
have never done this before, then try
1t at once and see how you look when
you see yourself in the mirror singing.
Don't stand as II you were waiting to
be shot, with your shoulders drawn
high and your hands twisted together
and your arms behind your back.
Don't throw your head so far back |
that 1t gives a strained look to your
throat.
Don't swell the muscles up in the |
neck and over the chest.
1t is impossible for the concert singer |
10 take any other attitude than the con-
ventional one, suppose. holding the
music with one hand and looking out |
at the audience. But the singer in a
private house or in the family circle.
II she feels she cannot stand quietly
and yet naturally, may take some at
titude which will give her an easy pose.
For instance, she may put her arm
pm the back of chair or lay her arm
across the piano and lean little
against It, These things will help her
10 keep an easy position.
If you find that you cannot sing even
,ne song through without getting Its
lie hoarse or the throat getting tired,
hen you have not leai ned to place
1our voice rightly.