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Jeannette LoVetri
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The Winter Soltice
On this, the shortest/longest day of the year, depending where you are on the earth, we mark the end of darkness and the beginning of...

The Healing Power of Song
It broke my heart yesterday when I read in the NY Times that one of the teachers who survived the Newtown horror shepherded her kindergarden...

Common Sense and Singing
It often strikes me that there is very little by way of common sense in the singing teaching community. So much has been handed down...

Transitions
The idea that we should have smooth transitions between registers is an old one. Most classical pedagogies espoused the idea that smooth transitions were a...

Talent, No Lessons
Many years ago, when I was about 16, my mother attended some kind of “women’s gathering” at which she sat next to someone she did...

Dinosaurs of the Future
I wish I had a crystal ball to look 200 or 250 years into the future. I would love to know what singing will be...

Music Changes, The Larynx Stays The Same
Over the last 100+ years, music has changed an enormous amount. What someone would have heard in 1912 bears very little resemblance to what he...

Substantial Versus Surface
Very occasionally, I encounter someone who “wants a few lessons” to (a) get a gig, (b) go to an audition, (c) get into college, (d)...

It’s Never Finished
Singing training is never finished. Like life, it goes on. When you are very young, you begin by learning the basics. You have to study...