Jeannette LoVetri

I’ve been gone for a while due to personal pressures, but now I have a few moments to write. I am invigorated by the response...

I just spent Saturday afternoon teaching for The New York Singing Teachers’ Association’s Professional Development Program, and had to acknowledge to the participants (about 25...

Restlessness isn’t a virtue. Ask anyone who has a restless nature and they will tell you that this drive from within exacts a price. On...

Just came back from a performance of a quintet with special guests at “Birdland”, one of our premier jazz clubs. This was an instrumental group,...

How does this strike you…… I don’t really do the Argentine tango, but I have seen quite a bit of it, and I have taken...

In this month’s issue of Opera News there is an article about belting and the Sweetlands, (it’s called “The Family That Belts Together”) voice teacher...

Are the songs of Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers, Kern, Arlen, and all the others who have given us our “standards” as good as the songs...

A lyric voice is one that is light, supple, and usually, pretty. Lyric voices have never been as impressive as the “bigger” voices…..the lyrico spinto,...

We all know that singing teachers make up things, images (mostly), but ideas and concepts, too. Some actually base what they come up with on...

For the past 30 years, at least, the music education system of the public schools of this country have gradually been reduced or eliminated. Children...