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Jeannette LoVetri
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The Way Out
Science is the way out. Out of what? Out of the quagmire of argument. Science is going to give us a way to KNOW what...
The Far Off 22nd Century Way
An imaginary conversation between two singing students in 2110. Mary Jo was speaking to Charlene. “Gee, I just read that in the old days all...
Registers For Their Own Sake
The key to singing well is understanding register function. No matter if the music is classical or some style of CCM, if you do not...
Doing Something Until You Don’t Have To
Singing is a physical skill. The exercises that singing teachers give students are meant to provoke change in the muscular systems that produce voiced sound....
Doing Until You Don’t Need To
If singing is a physial skill, then motor learning or kinesthetic coordination should be a much featured part of development. Singing teachers are just waking...
The Truly Stuck
Some people are perpetual victims. They are always sick, they always have problems, things are always happening to them and they really want your pity....
Nothing Matters
In the end, everything passes away. There are many sites in Central and South America left by the Mayan and Incan civilizations that have never...
Tradition versus Innovation
Tradition is a good thing. Keeping the ways of the past is a very important ingredient in making sense of things. Tradition gives context, history,...
The Soltice and Ever After
The shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere was noted in ancient civilizations. It seems they marked the soltices with celebrations of some...
Competent or Not
Why is it that some people who are extremely able think they are never good enough and some people who are only so-so think they...