Organization: Plainview-Rover Public Schools
To: vocalist
Date sent: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:08:55 -600
Subject: Re: receiving answers
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Here I go again. My 2 cents worth. I was and am still opposed to
"formal" voice training for pre-adolescents. But there is a difference
in teaching a young child and an adolescent. I once was very
staunch in not taking younger children for a student. But after
teaching a number of years I succumbed to the number of parents
who sought me out. I see no harm in working with children helping
them with pitch matching, singing in a nice head voice. Even
correct breathing. There is a difference in this and trying to make
an 8 year old sound like a 15 year old.

Stepping off the soap box now.

Date sent: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:18:58 -0500 (EST)
From: thomas mark montgomery
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Copies to: Sonny-at-aol.com
Subject: Re: receiving answers
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, DragonFang wrote:
>
> > We all get your message (all of us who have subscribed to the vocalist.org
> > list). Maybe there aren't any people from Florida that know a good teacher
> > for an eleven year old...
>
> Or perhaps some of us in Florida are categorically opposed to formal vocal
> training for children who are not yet adolescents. To paraphrase Marie
> Antoinette: "let 'em take piano!"
>
> Mark Montgomery
> Florida State University
>
> > > When I write a question to the above address, who gets it? I have written
> > > questions and not had an answer. One was --how do we find a good voice
> > > teacher for a 11 yr. old girl in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Thanks.
> > Sonny-at-aol.com
> > > Shirley
>


John Peoples
Music
Plainview-Rover School
Plainview, AR
jpeoples-at-prhs.afsc.k12.ar.us