Kelly Clarkson Tries To Sing For The Pope

There have been constant debates on youtube, myspace, facebook, etc. all weekend about Miss Clarkson. She sang the Ave Maria for the Pope at the Youth Rally on Saturday. Any trained musician could hear that she didn’t know the song, her Latin was poorly pronounced, her breath control was pathetic for a professional singer and the ending three notes were weak and out of tune. Not to mention the fact that she was unable to hold a note very long, and for Schubert’s Ave Maria, you have to.

So what? I guess we should all pretend that it was fantastic? Well that is what all of Kelly’s supporters say, along with death threats and some crude language, to the classically trained ear.

One of the reasons I was a little annoyed was there are thousands of people who could have done a better job. Why didn’t they get someone who is studying opera at Julliard, someone who could have benefited from the exposure, someone who is actually CATHOLIC? Do you know how many young and older Catholics out there pay hard earned money each week for their voice lessons in New York City? Classical singers fight tooth and nail for jobs, for any kind of “break”, so I take this as an ignorant snub to the real musicians out there. And most of them can sing the Ave Maria properly!

OK, Kelly is famous, she has power in the music industry, she has a very large “tween” network of supporters, but after she sang her three pop songs, someone else should have come out to sing the Ave Maria to the Pope. Why was Kelly singing at a Catholic conference anyway? She is a non-practicing Baptist. Was she just a pawn in a game of, “Let’s draw as much attention to the Youth Rally we can get”? Well, Cardinals, you already had the Pope there. If you really think you needed more publicity you are doing it for all of the wrong reasons.

One end note to all of the people out there threatening us Classical Musicians who didn’t like the performance, what ever happened to freedom of speech?

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