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From:  John Link <johnlink@c...>
John Link <johnlink@c...>
Date:  Mon Apr 30, 2001  3:22 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Voice Lessons over the summer


GWendel wrote:

>At 11:23 AM 4/29/01 -0400, John Link wrote:
>>[snip] I say that my students don't represent
>>anything but themselves.
>
>Would that it were really true! But, ohhh--- how often I've heard people
>tell me that they judge a voice teacher by the abilities of the students.
>One fellow, a teacher of singing him/herself, once made a disparaging
>comment to me (naive impressionable student that I am) about another teacher
>after hearing *one* student sing poorly.

Just because other people do foolish things (judge a voice teacher by
the abilities of the students) does not mean that one ought to join
them in their foolishness by considering that their students
represent them.

Respectfully,
John Link

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