From: Margaret Branscombe
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: before I give it all up....(long)
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Molly,

I think you need a new teacher, not a new career. Your present teacher has
behaved most unprofessionally with regard to your lessons and discussing you with
another student. Can you transfer teachers?

Margaret Branscombe

Molly McLinden wrote:

> The music director is also her private teacher.I
> hope that the casting was based on looks...(the other
> girl was quite hefty, and I think the part called for
> that..and I am slender. But who knows what it was
> based on? Casting is unpredictable and often
> disappointing)
> My voice teacher gives me 20 minute lessons ...or
> cancels them....when I should be getting an hour.
> Then he yells at me when I am not 100%! I think I did
> horribly at my jury today. Just before my jury,you
> see, a fellow student was telling me why I didn't get
> cast in the last opera. The director was discussing me
> behind my back to another student. With things like
> this happening in the arts world, I ask myself if it
> is really worth it.