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From:  Domisosing@a...
Domisosing@a...
Date:  Fri Dec 1, 2000  12:20 am
Subject:  Problematic choir teachers....HELP!


Hi List,
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to deal with a problem:
First, I have several students in a particular high school choir program
who are developing wonderful solo voices. However, their choir teacher is
discouraging them from studying with me because he doesn't think that their
sound "blends" with his choir sound. Let me explain that his choirs are
producing a very unhealthy tone. No vibrato is allowed, and the women singers
are typically extremely breathy.....in fact many of my students refer to the
soprano section as the "fans".......as in, all you hear is air. Further, the
men are pulling their chest voice tremendously high, and the "pure, head
voice" that the choir director believes he is developing in them, is nothing
but falsetto......pulled chest and then a flip to falsetto.......hmmmm,
sounds like a healthy production to me................
More, he has the entire choir raising their soft palettes,,,,,,,which is
not a behaviour I encourage. I believe that it is a compensatory behaviour
that is taught to make up for the lack of resonating space lost from a high
larynx.................
Even more...........he has now been discouraging other students from
studying with me, and the students I do have hide the fact that they take
privately from me because they do not want to be singled out in their choirs.
More my students are doing phenomenally well in classical, theatre, and pop
genres as soloists and demonstrate healthy singing functions in their
voices...........
Any suggestions on how to deal with this director would be greatly
appreciated. Other than "flaming" him, I can not think of an appropriate
thing to say to him.
Thanks for your input!
Mary Beth Felker
a "choir voice" wrecker..........LOL


  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date Size
7151 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! Lloyd W. Hanson   Fri  12/1/2000   4 KB
7195 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! R.L.Frye@w...   Fri  12/1/2000   3 KB
7204 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! Domisosing@a...   Fri  12/1/2000   2 KB
7207 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! Lana Mountford   Fri  12/1/2000   7 KB
7214 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! RALUCOB@a...   Sat  12/2/2000   2 KB
7215 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! michael.chesebro   Sat  12/2/2000   3 KB
7223 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! Lloyd W. Hanson   Sat  12/2/2000   4 KB
7247 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! Craig Tompkins   Sat  12/2/2000   5 KB
7251 Re: Problematic choir teachers....HELP! Domisosing@a...   Sun  12/3/2000   3 KB

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