Four Feet Away
-OUR feet away from the singer is the microphone; and that, for all practical purposes, is his audience. Close to him, listening in intimacy, hearing all if seeing nothing, the radio audience need not be attacked with the assaults of the concert-hall. Frederick Cocks in a group of tenor solos from 1YA sang all his songs with the exuberance suggested by the title of the last number, "Open Your Windows to the Morn." Singers quite often forget that their radio audience is very near them. Whether from carelessness or from an automatic desire to compensate for the unaccustomed deadness of the studio, they sing far more loudly than is necessary. This is quite different, of course, from the legitimate incisiveness demanded for the proper emphasis of climaxes. The microphone broadcasts what it receives, and while it can absorb all the volume of a loud singer, it can do nothing to correct the coarseness of tone that comes from forcing. There were one or two very pretty notes in Mr. Cocks’ singing, giving promise of much more musical results if he would but curb his tendency to strain for effect.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 14
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192Four Feet Away New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 14
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