| Staying on "ee" vs. "ih" for a moment - I also have a fun memory of a classmate of mine in high school who was an amazing baritone, but was (if I remember correctly) not vocally trained at all - it was all just amazing talent. After his freshman year in college, he came back for the summer program we had in our town to play Harold in The Music Man. I was playing Jacey Squires, but also doing some vocal coaching, and I remember a night early on when we met to go through his songs. I remember we were doing the lead-in to "76 Trombones" and he, now with some definite classical voice training behind him, came out with "please observe me if you wheel / I'm Professor Harold Heel." And I stopped and said something like "my god, what have they done to your voice?" ;-) |
