Dear Mary Beth, I do not know of any Australian singing teacher who immerses himself in aspects of physiology as American teachers seem to. (Yet Richard Miller did not.)
OK, if Randy is in the field of throat problems, that is a different one to teaching singing and I guess it is to be expected that one so involved would slant his interest toward the theory of singing, but the big overriding fact is that one teaches himself to sing with the assistance of the singing teacher. If one is not prepared to sing and adapt in his own attempts to arrive at a useful technique, he is destined to operate in some sterile vocal environment obtained under the auspices of his teacher. A dead end.
A teacher who obsesses with vocal apparatus while actively discouraging vocal in dependance in the student is also doing the student a great disservice.. Reg.
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