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Jeannette LoVetri
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Discouraged and Disgusted
Yet another 20 year old who started studying when she was 6, with an “opera” teacher, who taught her for 6 years, and then some...
Still dangerous after all these years…
Still controversial. There are still some people who teach singing that think singing CCM vocal music written after 1968 is dangerous. This is not news...
Common Sense
I’ve been gone for a while due to personal pressures, but now I have a few moments to write. I am invigorated by the response...
A New Day Dawning – Finally
I just spent Saturday afternoon teaching for The New York Singing Teachers’ Association’s Professional Development Program, and had to acknowledge to the participants (about 25...
contentment versus complacency
Restlessness isn’t a virtue. Ask anyone who has a restless nature and they will tell you that this drive from within exacts a price. On...
The Best of the Best II
Just came back from a performance of a quintet with special guests at “Birdland”, one of our premier jazz clubs. This was an instrumental group,...
Let’s Play "I Know More Than You Do"
How does this strike you…… I don’t really do the Argentine tango, but I have seen quite a bit of it, and I have taken...
Blasting Back to the Past
In this month’s issue of Opera News there is an article about belting and the Sweetlands, (it’s called “The Family That Belts Together”) voice teacher...
The Great American Songbook
Are the songs of Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers, Kern, Arlen, and all the others who have given us our “standards” as good as the songs...
The Lyric Voice
A lyric voice is one that is light, supple, and usually, pretty. Lyric voices have never been as impressive as the “bigger” voices…..the lyrico spinto,...