Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:
> After you are in control of your voice and can sing every note in your > range correctly (not perfectly, but correctly), and have the ability to > create effects (soft, loud, colors, diction) without cheating or > compromising your tonal quality -- THEN jump into the rest of the > package. [Disclaimer Notes: ... I tend to get all passionate and > overstate my opinions on vocalist, because I feel like I'm a lone voice > against the academic tradition sometimes ...
Ahhh, Isabelle - I agree 1,000%! But then I am constantly learning myself, as well as passing it on to my students. Do you feel there is any relationship to this and the Bulletin Board notice in Classical Singer, June 2000, p.4?
"The Rosa Ponselle Foundation announced the discontinuance of two of its three competitions..." "Their actions were based on what the Foundation views as 'the paucity of competent trainers in the field, the decline in the technical and artistic achievements of our young vocal talents... who, through no fault of their own, are unable to be either competently or thoroughly trained.' "
Diane Moore Soprano & vocal technique teacher Silicon Valley, CA
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