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Jeannette LoVetri
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Functional Training in the 21st Century
If we let go of repertoire entirely for the moment and looked at singing training strictly as a physical activity like a sport or like...
Coming Home To Your Own Voice
There are a lot of people whose idea of singing is based on making the voice do something. They have never, not once, sung a...
Respect For All Kinds Of Music
Anthony Tommasini, the classical reviewer of the New York Times, recently reviewed 85 year old Barbara Cook and had the nerve to say [my words,...
Riding the Semi-Autonomous Nervous System
You can blink, swallow, cough, and breathe on purpose but when you are not doing so, those things happen on their own through the wiring...
When You Already Know Everything You Need To
Sooner or later, you come to a place where you think, “That’s it. I don’t need to learn anything more about this topic. I’m an...
The 21st Century
This blog has addressed the changing atmosphere of teaching singing int he 21st century numerous times. It is slowly but surely moving towards changes that...
Those Who Refuse To Learn
In spite of the fact that I am always championing students, placing the responsibility of learning to sing squarely on the shoulders of the teachers,...
"Good Taste"
How many kinds of singing are there in this world? Do we really know? How many kinds of singing are available to the average person...
Never Too Late Never Too Early
I have two students, both middle aged men, who came to me with no background in singing who wanted to sing and who, two years...
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce was arrested a number of times on charges of obscenity. Compared to what comedians get away with now, what he did was minor,...