Jeannette LoVetri

The world is full of mediocre music. That’s not news. Mediocre — to me that’s music with little substance, lots of “effects”, created by technology pros...

Fear of Success? Yes, Fear of Success I have run into this so many times. Someone comes in claiming not to have been able to...

Voice Science or Vocal Pedagogy? You can’t win either way. You need both but you can’t get married to either. William Vennard, Marilyn Horne’s teacher,...

From Wikipedia: Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor, and lex parsimoniae in Latin, which means law of parsimony) is a problem-solving principle attributed to William of Ockham(c. 1287–1347), who was an...

If you are in the midst of a career one thing you certainly do not want to do is totally change the way you sing...

Parlor Tricks  — that’s all they are. I have encountered the phenomenon of “moving the structures inside the throat deliberately” many times in the past....

Why would anyone have fear of training? I have written here before about people who are afraid of training their voices lest it make them...

New Year, New Directions Each new year begins with hope and anticipation toward new directions. Maybe it will be better than last. Maybe it holds...

Ethics? Who talks about ethics? We live in a society in which ethics is rarely discussed. Often people don’t really know how to answer when...

Cult Following? It has been hilariously suggested to me that I have a cult following and that Somatic Voicework™ is about me. “Gee whiz”, as...