Dear Emily:
Suggest to your students that a tone with vibrancy is desired from
the exact moment of the beginning of a vowel in classical singing.
That vibrancy must not increase during the duration of the note but,
instead, be present at the onset of the tone. What your students are
likely doing is suppressing the vibrato or vibrancy of the tone at
its inception and then allowing the vibrancy into the tone sometime
during the ending half of its duration. This is a learned technique
used in most popular singing for the past 50 years but it generally
does not belong in classical singing. Once they give attention to
the idea of vibrancy at the beginning of the tone they can, as
easily, learn this "other" technique.
--
Lloyd W. Hanson
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