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Jeannette LoVetri
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Those Who Can, Can and Those Who Can’t — ?
Why are there so many folks who teach who sound lousy themselves? What’s up with that? Shouldn’t a teacher of singing have found a way...
Urgent! Stop Certification and Trademarking!!!
I heard today that some teachers of singing are “strongly against” certification of teachers of singing and of the idea of trademarked approaches or branded...
Don’t Know Much About History
I was at a dinner over the weekend with several people in their 70s. We were discussing how much of what we would consider “general...
Saying Yes When You Should Say No
Sometimes people are thrown into situations in which they have no experience. For various reasons, sometimes it falls to an individual to deal with something...
Vested Interests
Those of us who deal with singing all have opinions about it. I am very opinionated and not afraid to say so. My opinions about...
Working With The Problematic Voice (amended)
If you don’t have any radical techniques or approaches, if you just do reasonable things, you can be quite successful with people who have a...
Resonance Strategies and Formant Tuning
Thanks to advances in voice science we are learning more and more about “formant tuning”, sometimes also called “resonance strategies”. The idea is that the...
Because They Can and We Can’t Stop Them
Something that singing teachers do that is truly detrimental to the profession, and something about which I have written here many times, is label what...
Everybody Sounds The Same
When I was a child and heard classical singers on the radio or TV, they all sounded alike. I could recognize that they were singing...