What, exactly, is a master class? A class taught my a master, no? Seems to make sense. I have seen my share of master classes,...

I believe that new opera, written by living composers is indeed alive and well. Sometimes new interpretations of old operas can work, too. While in...

The decline overall in respect for all performing arts is ever more apparent in the arts themselves. If you do not educate children to understand...

Do not bother to see the last few performances of “Annie Get Your Gun” with Deborah Voigt at Glimmerglass Opera House in Cooperstown, NY. Truly,...

It’s all about perception. It’s about your point of view. What we argue about, what causes strife and even wars, are different points of view....

I have frequently encountered research done on college students. It has been such that the work implies that what was done on these college students...

Caring too much ……. a lyric from “Falling in Love with Love” from Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse — it is a lovely...

Singing teachers listen for a living. Most of them have not been taught to listen. One of our participants in the most recent Somatic Voicework™...

I wrote this in a post on this blog in 2006. I was asked to explain further but I did not. It’s a little late,...

Sometimes people need to take singing lessons for reasons that have little to do with singing. We have, in our society, quite a bit of...