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Jeannette LoVetri
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Contemporary Commercial Music
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...

Tenors and Female Belters
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...

"Big" Voices
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?...

Making It Fit, No Matter What
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...

Violence in Singing
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....

The People Who Can, Do
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...

Peace On Earth
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,...

The Winter Soltice
On this, the shortest/longest day of the year, depending where you are on the earth, we mark the end of darkness and the beginning of...

The Healing Power of Song
It broke my heart yesterday when I read in the NY Times that one of the teachers who survived the Newtown horror shepherded her kindergarden...