16/16 Ability to sing and sustain the voice on an _ordinary_ breath. Ability to _quietly_ breathe as often as text and phrase permit. Ability to breathe so that the fullest inspiration _brings no fatigue_. Ability to so economize the breath that the _reserve is never exhausted_. The ability to breathe so naturally, so unobtrusively, that _neither breath nor lack of breath is ever suggested to the listener_--this is the very perfection of the art.. |