e-mail review from Meg [01]

damian,

I meant to email you about this weeks ago but of course forgot. The CD of yours that 
you gave me actually made it into the CD player and not into the "CDs people gave me 
that I am too guilty to throw out" pile. It's quite good - the songs are lovely with organic, 
uncontrived melodies and the percussion in particular can be quite brilliant. 

Your voice sounds wonderful, with an enviably easy top, so that I can listen to it
without worrying about whether or not you are going to hit notes. What I like most is   
the way that you use your voice as more than a device to create certain pitches, but as   
an instrument capable of a variety of sounds. To call them colors would be an   
oversimplification, but the colors are there along with other interesting effects that   
I don't want to demystify by attempting to name. And the thing that makes we hyper-
cerebral, uptight classical musicians (who got most of our spontaneity beaten out of us 
at conservatory) green with envy is that you probably don't think a bit about any of 
those vocal elements that are so impressive. 

So bravo you. Rest assured that I now listen to your CD because I enjoy it and not
just because I feel guilty about not doing so. 

All the best,

Meg

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Margaret Felice, soprano
President, Boston Opera Collaborative
www.bostonoperacollaborative.org