Jeannette LoVetri

A few days ago I wrote a piece from the “opposition” point of view. I thought it was telling that some readers didn’t know if...

This week I have worked on two sides of the same issue. One singer came in with a lifetime of singing with a natural vibrato....

I’ve been thinking that it would be good to take on the position of those whose attitudes I dislike. SO… I believe that singing opera...

I continue to receive personal reports, one at a time, from various teachers of singing who are at university, that there is a “war” between...

What does it mean to respect a piece of music? Does respect mean treating it the way one treats a person? Do the same kinds...

Over the holidays I got sick with a head cold (not unusual). I sang at the holiday concert I mentioned a while ago, with 90%...

As I see it, my job is to get someone to make a sound that he or she has never made, and therefore has no...

I was teaching for a long time — years — before it occurred to me that I was in a service profession. I knew I...

In order to have standards, you have to have some kind of structure. You have to make up some guidelines and stick to them. Some...

I can usually tell when I am listening to someone singing CCM who has had only classical training, as there are “telltale signs” in the...