Jeannette LoVetri

These three terms, “legit”, “belt”, and “mix” are used as normal parlance on Broadway and on the West End in London. They were terms created...

Is Ella Fitzgerald less of an artist than Bryn Terfel? Is Tony Bennett less of an artist than Thomas Hampson? Is Bernadette Peters less of...

Thirteen years ago, I reached a point where I could not go on describing what I was doing by explaining it as something that I...

It seems that classically trained tenors and female belters have a lot in common vocally. Many people recognize the similarity of production. If we discuss...

Things change. Resisting change is futile. You can’t keep something static for very long, as sooner or later entropy sets in. Even the sun is...

What, exactly, is a big voice? Is it just one that’s loud? Is it loud and unusual in some way? Is it “hefty”? What’s that?...

All of us who have been trained to sing, particularly in a university setting, were trained in some form of “classical pedagogy” because, until very...

I saw “The Hobbit” tonight at the movies. OK, as those kinds of movies go. Prior to it there were five trailers of upcoming films....

I think quite often about the statements, “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” It always makes me cringe, because I believe there is...

If each person, of their own free will, chooses to let go of violence, and to burn their personal weapons (in thought, word and deed,...