Glenn Miller sings A Basso Profundo Am I

Glenn Miller sings A Basso Profundo Am I at 2008 Kings College RSCMA course. For more videos of Glenn, search for Vox Ann Arbor Extreme Singing

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• basso
• profundo

[GrantKingMusic]

It's funny that the audience laughed at the low b-flat at the end and then suddenly stopped when they realized what they were actually hearing.

[SokJuice]

@OliverKahnNr1 His B-flat was like a gong...so jealous

[NezbitOfficialBand]

@GabeFrank A GENIUS!

[RhenniusMan]

Damn! That's amazing. You must post a new, better (quality) version!

[KjeXXXer]

@BassoJay I know, you mentioned the blurb on wikipedia and I thought you might have edited it in from the St. Petersburg Male Choir site. :)

[BassoJay]

@KjeXXXer I was just thanking you for adding to this discussion about the Russian Basses. I have not contributed any part of this discussion to Wikipedia.

[KjeXXXer]

@BassoJay Ah, that old site huh? Must have skipped it myself. So did you put it in the oktavist article, is that what you mean?

[KjeXXXer]

@Abracadabra208 Well I never heard him go beyond the C2, and that might be where his voice bottoms out. Or maybe the step down from C2 to Bb1 means losing a lot of resonance. My extreme low's are like that, going from A1 to G1 is a small step but it takes away a lot of what normal resonance that remains and leaves me with just a sound that I have to shape in the right way to make up for the loss of resonance. Would be cool to hear Moll in a choir though!

[BassoJay]

@KjeXXXer I read about their Italian training on the St. Petersburg Male Choir web site. It is now a blurb on Wikipedia as well. Thanks for contributing to the thread!

Jay

[PNCCaine]

b flats nothing! getting your vocal chords to beat at less than one beat per second? that's something! trouble with opera? its not pub misic for binge drinkers? what a hostile audience? dont know how to behave! wrong to smerk at a singer? strange its pearl fed to swine? they'd choke on gold? Elvis knew gold basso profundo!

[KjeXXXer]

@BassoJay Interesting. Where have you learnt they use Italian techniques? As far as ol' Glib, I see your point, but I would point to the first recording of the All-night Vigil from '66, where the (25 or so!) basses are freakishly and delightfully strong. Their sound is more Glib than Vladimir Miller, and for me it really works like a charm. The sound is so rough and brutally masculine, and I love that sound, but as Glib has showed us, it's no good sound for a soloist.

[GabeFrank]

Who composed this?