July 2, 2021 - Issue #4 - Past Issues

Vacation shifted things! This fourth newsletter from Uncaged Bird is a roundup of recent singing news items. The next long-form piece, on music performance anxiety, appears in next week’s newsletter. It’s been super-interesting to dig deep into stage fright…which everyone experiences.

Harmony orthodoxy

Barbershop singing requires virtuosically accurate intonation. And, did you know it was born on a hotel rooftop in Kansas City?

Is that Chris Cornell risen from the dead, or is it a deep fake?

Soon, we may not be able to trust our own eyes, and the estates of famous singers are concerned about it.

Air

Did you celebrate the 50th (!) anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s Blue? You may just like this, too: the only album from the band Air, also made in 1971. Kind of like turning up the chest register dial from 3 to 7 on Joni’s voice…. h/t to The New Cue

“Singing takes people out of themselves”

Elizabeth Marshall interviewed Carol Vaness. The star soprano talks about singing after the 1992 nuclear arms-controls agreement between Russia and the U.S. and making Boris Yeltsin’s wife cry with her song.

“Surrender to evil”

We hear a lot about the processing of commercial music recordings these days (e.g. auto-tune), but it’s a thing in classical music recordings, too. Sound Field made this excellent video discussion of it.

Have a lovely weekend!

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