Yesterday I noticed in "The Rhyming Dictionary" the word "inspire" described as "give courage, animate, invigorate, create feeling and stimulus - guide by divine or supernatural inspiration..." It also adds "breathe in " ! All these words make one realise how much can be achieved by a simple breath, especially if emitted by a brilliant singer, actor or orator - and when it is pianissimo - very quiet- the atmosphere can be soothing or electrictrifying, strangely conflicting sensations - it just depends what is intended, and the tone of voice used. I remember an eminent speaker explaining that it is the intent which can be detemined by inflexion. For instance, if one screams angrily and with malevolence"I love you" it can put the fear of God into whomsoever it is addressed, or softly and sweetly caress the ear with "I hate you with all the venom in the world"- it is entirely lost if the listener does not understand the language! The speaker went on to say this experiment had been carried out with dogs and cats, of course they reacted to the tones - which is why composers can have a field day with our emotions without speaking a word.....those "squidgy sweet" harmonics in Richard Strauss' music, oh, how they churn up ones inner feelings - and Mahler at his most majestic - such pathos,
heart searching, joy - every emotion possible in his unique phrases. As I write this I know the golden voiced Lisa Larsson, recently the perfect Euridice to Anna Larssons' Orphee in Stockholm, is treating an audience in Orebro, to a feast of subtle toning and glorious phrasing, in a programme featuring both these great composers of magical vocal scores ......lucky Orebroans !On Saturday, as I've already mentioned in a previous blog, Anna will create yet another portrayal of Erda, in Vienna , which I'm sure will be spellbinding; this time Wagner will be displayed - I wonder how many performances of this role Anna has sung - must be something of a record .......? So we can all appreciate being inspired in every way by artistic creators. Thank your lucky stars to be alive in an age when much of this genius can be recorded for posterity, but whenever possible find the "live" performance recordings, much of the current technological enhancement removes the spontaneous creativity - boring, one of the disadvantages of modern electronic "pseudo perfection"...lamentable, but financially profitable to recording companies . The problem for me is that it produces un-inspired results - almost a futile endeavour methinks......no divine inspiration involved...alack, alas..... k..p b.......g....BE INSPIRED......
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