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EPISODE · May 28, 2010 · 30 MIN

Episode 9

from The Diction Police · host Ellen Rissinger

French Diction is our topic this week--we concentrate on the texts to "À Chloris" by Reynaldo Hahn and "Chanson à boire" from Ravel's Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, with a discussion of the nasal vowels and bright [a] and dark [ɑ] with Dr. Francois Germain, a coach and French Diction teacher on the faculty of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. You can find the texts to these songs at The LiederNet Archive. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me here, on the Facebook page, or directly at [email protected]

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French Diction is our topic this week--we concentrate on the texts to À Chloris by Reynaldo Hahn and Chanson à boire from Ravel's Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, with a discussion of the nasal vowels and bright and dark As with Francois Germain, a coach and French Diction teacher on the faculty of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

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