Right now I have nearly 40 students, but I only have 20 signature pages. About half ( Read more... )

And also because of no-shows. Which is particularly annoying when I give unscheduled time way, during which I could be resting from this sinus headache OR watching General Hospital OR continuing to enjoy lunch with Diane Lane OR walking the dogs who did not get walks this a.m. because I had to catch up on sleep lost when my head was pounding at ( Read more... )

Got this from a subscriber to Vocalist (a Yahoo discussion group on singing):

"Penso che una vita per la musica sia una vita spesa bene ed e a questo che
mi sono dedicato."

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have
devoted my life to."

Luciano Pavarotti
1935-2007

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Berthold Auerbach

Farewell to Julie Shirey (Dominican), Teng Yang (Brown), Sam Clemens (Carroll), and Ryan Cappleman (UWM). We thought Ryan would be able to stay in the studio but it turns out he's a double major (voice and piano). Somehow we thought he was a piano major who would be doing voice classes but no. He has to change teachers. And ... that's okay.... ( Read more... )

A dear friend of mine from grad school is making it BIG these days. He's been off-Broadway, on 30 ROCK, and just got international press at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where he portrayed a would-be terrorist. (Funnier than it sounds.) Check out his website at Read more... )

is the most wonderful woman in the world. I wrote to her today about a lesson that I had had with which I was most unhappy, and she wrote back ( Read more... )

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw

I have sent two people home in one week after hearing them singing ONE vocalise (and not the entire up&down process, just the first thing out of their mouths) because they were so hoarse from ( Read more... )

WHAT A GREAT MOVIE ( Read more... )