From: "DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT)"
Subject: Re: List of Greatest Voice Teachers
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Susi wrote:

>What comes first, the great voice teacher or the ability
to pick and choose good voices and then become" a great voice teacher" by
association?

You must be speaking of the private studio. Those of us in educational
settings don't get a choice. We get to teach whoever walks through the door.
I may get the next Caruso or a student who cannot match a pitch...it's a crap
shoot every semester! :) Somehow I kinda enjoy the challenge. Lots of
teachers can make a silk purse out of silk, but it takes a good (great?)
teacher to make a silk purse...well, you know.

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