oversouling

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/8/2011 10:06 PM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
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>I thought it was a reference to the religious views of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

But wasn't it Thoreau who oversoloed?  Alone
there through the winter in the Concord woods.

Joel


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>On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, James Harbeck
> <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >> "singing" "the national anthem"
> >
> > Well, I've often said that the use of melisma in singing should be
> > restricted in its use to singers of observable, known, or claimed
> > sub-Saharan-African descent.
> >
> > In the case cited, WRT to Ms. Aguilera, it's not clear whether that
> > rule should have been enforced. It's been bandied about in gossip mags
> > and on gossip sites that there's a strong possibility of a nigger her
> > ancestral woodpile. If that rumor  be true, well, if she wants to get
> > down with the colored people and blow melismatic sound, well, she has
> > a right.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > ­­­
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"­­a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > ­Mark Twain
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