Author: Wong, Lucas
Publication details: NATS Journal of Singing
Excerpt:As vocal pianists throughout our studies and careers, we all work with piano reductions encountered in choral and operaticrepertoire. Singers, who study these works through the lens of a piano score or reduction, depend on accompanists’ or coaches’ expertise in realizing these scores, while adapting accordingly to different needs in their preparation: learning notes, hearing underlying harmonies and counterpoints, consolidating the playing/singing with a stronger rhythmic sense, drilling a difficult passage, and preparing for the first rehearsal with the conductor and orchestra.