Jeannette LoVetri

Big Changes I am announcing here that I am no longer affiliated with Shenandoah University. Those who have associated my work with this university should...

How is it that there is no such thing as “classical training”? It has been written about here many times that “classical training” was all there...

Middle-Aged Guys With Long Hair Not my favorite thing.  : ( Beware paunchy middle-aged guys with pony-tails and bald heads. There are a few whose...

On Broadway:  It’s All About The Acting Currently, on Broadway, you will find the values at musical auditions  ranked in this order: Excellent actor Excellent...

Singing That Changes The World Can you really change the world with singing that has been so electronically manipulated it could have been generated by...

Hold On For Dear Life Over and over I encounter the idea that someone can hold on for dear life to the muscles of the...

Beware the Slick Packaging and The Hype Lots of people sound like they have something really good to offer. If you are easily taken in...

How Can You Be Too Relaxed To Sing? Students are often told to relax. Some of them are very deliberately “relaxing” while singing, all the...

Inaccurate Descriptions or… Huh? We have a lot of words in singing that are attempts to describe what we hear when someone sings. These words...

What is the truth about repertoire, folks? Is it magic? If you give a beginning student an opera aria to “challenge” her, is that a...