Date sent: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:44:14 EST
Subject: Re: Voice Teacher Doll
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 02/03/2000 12:55:42 PM Central Standard Time,
Plvdijk-at-iafrica.com writes:

<< > =B7 "Yes, those are all pictures of me"
>

I had a hard time explaining why I totally collapsed in hysterical mirth
when a new student commented on some of the photos in my studio.Her
question was :
Are those all photos of you? All I had to do was reply a somewhat choked:=

Yes..
Are we all so predictable? >>

I had the same reaction ... I had just read the post for the first time (I=
've
since received it 5 more times!!) and I had said ALL of those things to my=

student -- keep it spinning, keep it open, I remember when I sang that son=
g
(I had just given her one of my tried-and-true audition pieces for her
college auditions), and she had just looked at my photo album AFTER her
lesson and said, "Are those all pictures of you?" and then I opened that m=
ail
and nearly wet myself.

I am the plush (approachable) slacks-and-turtleneck model with the midwest=
ern
accent ... how 'bout you?

Chris Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"