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Cécile McLorin Salvant, Silvana Estrada Provide Two Master Classes for the Price of One in Brilliant Disney Hall Double Header: Concert Review
Silvana Estrada and Cécile McLorin Salvant delivered a pair of vocal master classes in a co-headlining show at L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The soul-scorching “Being Alive,” dramatic climax enough for a show like this, was succeeded by the more comedic — and exhausting — “Getting Married Today,” a multi-character mini-opera for which McLorin Salvant was breathlessly prepared to belt or spit out all of the parts, male baritone and female soprano alike. But she also described an evolution from a fixation on an object of desire to “self-love.” That proclamation won some applause from the Disney Hall audience… as if Estrada should ever be encouraged to give up the haunting sense of heartache that has served her so well in her nascent but meteoric career. Her bottomlessly belty voice speaks of anguish and earnestness, but amid that immaculacy, you could hear that Estrada is not just paying lip service when she says that she was also influenced by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and some of the same bluesy sirens that had an effect on McLorin Salvant.
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