September 24, 2003
-
Bel Canto
The conclusion of tonight’s season-
opening episode of “The West Wing”
was a picture of President Bartlet
receiving the Host at Mass.
Related material:
The Source:
Tips On Popular Singing
by Frank Sinatra
in collaboration with
his vocal teacher John Quinlan
What prompted me to find this
booklet on the Web
(at about 8:45 PM tonight) was
40,000 Years of Music
by Jacques Chailley
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964),
page 162,
on the bel canto style of singing.
I picked up this book this afternoon
at a sale for $1.
See also Sinatra’s remarks on bel canto
(various places on the Web).
For the religious significance of
the page number 162, see my
entry of 9/11 2003,
Added at 3:20 AM Sept. 25…
In Related News:
Source: Google News, about 3:15 AM 9/25/03
