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Jeannette LoVetri
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Catching Up With The Past
More than 35 years ago I presented at a program for the New York Singing Teachers’ Association on the music of Stevie Wonder. You have...

Violations of Bodily Function
In keeping with yesterday’s post, it’s important to look at the body because if you sing you also have to look at bodily function. You...

Humanness Is Enough
Human beings have limits. Some of them are flexible. Some of them absolutely are not. The human body will definitely die if some very specific...

What’s It Worth To You?
What is your voice worth to you? What is it worth to you to be thought of as an excellent vocalist? Not an actor, not...

How Singing Teachers Think
The hardest thing to change is someone’s mind. People “get married” to their own ideas. They invest in them and their validity. They build a...

Prejudice Against Singers?
I’ve written here before about prejudice regarding singers. It’s odd that this exists in so many places and shows up in a variety of forms....

Saying “Thank You”
Teaching is dynamic. You experience all that the human race has to offer, in all its glory and messiness. Some people say “thank you” at...

Boundaries, Not Limits
What are “appropriate boundaries”? What is “functional behavior”? Many people do not know. While I certainly can’t provide the “definite answer” to these questions, I...

The Love Of Money
The quote is usually mis-quoted as “Money is the root of all evil”. The actual quote is “The love of money is the root of...