Susan and Vocalisters:
I finely written post and expressing a most important difficulty for singers. There really is no answer except to approach each performance situation as an opportunity to practice your important art and with an audience to complete the process. Your process of performance is more important than any feedback you might receive. A recording is worth more than any comments from listeners regardless of their credentials. Ultimately, your singing is judged by you only against your concept of what it was or should have been. It is obvious that you felt you performed well and that is all that is important. Jobs, gigs, future performances do depend on others views of you but your view of yourself will, ultimately be the controlling factor in how others perceive you. The old saying: an audition or performance is only of value to the performer is always true.
-- Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA Professor of Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, Emeritus Director of Opera-Theatre, 1987-1997 School of Performing Arts Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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