Re: gospel choir and band in 1500 seater q's

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:15:04 -0700, Scott Fraser
<Scott_Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am guessing the trickiest thing to perfect here is the variation in level between the choir singing then silence as the one or two line solos are sung.>>

This is a performance issue. Before amplification choirs & soloists
made it work by being aware & sensitive to the need to have a single
voice be approximately as audible as a group of voices. The conductor
is ultimately in control of this, if he's doing his job.

Well yeah. And Mary Martin was once the Queen of Broadway. That style
is still around, particularly in opera. But not every solo singer has
the sort of voice that can ride unamplified over a band and chorus.
And neither should they. A microphone is integral to most of today's
vocal styles, and they're none the worse for that.

Ever since Heny Mancini first used (amplified) bass flute soloing over
a big band, it's been common for much more to be required of the sound
system than "you balance it, I'll just make it louder!"
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