Hi Everybody,
A hypothetical:
Incoming first year voice student has sung all his/her life in choir,
solo and ensemble contest, musicals, church, variety shows, etc. and
loves to sing, is a natural singer with a clear, unique and beautiful
timbre and great potential. Consistently had the lead, the solo, the
superior rating for advanced repertoire. The parents of this student
are unavailable and uninvolved due to dysfunctional family situation.
Nobody nurtures or helps this singer, except the high school choir
director and musical director. He/she goes to college, gets a
scholarship, learns languages and style and can sing beautifully but,
oops... has not yet learned to read music. Not taught in High School,
and student has never had a real voice lesson in all his/her life. By
the way, this student graduated high school at the age of 17 having been
skipped over a grade. And the mother died when the student was 13.
Whoops, and the father's an alcoholic. Are you going to admit him/her?
Going to give up on them because they don't read music yet? Or are you
going to nurture this talent? He/She wants to learn... Is it the
student's fault that they weren't taught theory or history or piano?
Who was there to pay for lessons? Who stepped in to care for and about
that student? Should the student's new University Class Piano teacher
tell the student to give up and "go into public relations?"
Pavarotti doesn't read music, so I've heard.
Paul McCartney does not read music.
Student above had such determination, that he/she has not only learned
to read music, play the piano (to a certain level) and excelled in music
theory, sight singing and is now a professional opera singer with a
manager and gigs in A houses.
A scholarship student all the way, as well.
Thank God somebody recognized the talent and overlooked the upbringing.
Gina
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