In a message dated 3/5/2002 12:46:47 PM Pacific Standard Time,
spmello@a... writes:
> Of course it is possible for a twenty or thirty year old to understand voice
> so completely that they are capable of effective teaching, but I have no
> doubt that that is an extreme exception. I shuddered when I read the
> posting from the list member who began teaching after one undergraduate
> pedagogy course. How can one teach singing without first developing and
>
Hi Steven
Interesting response. I was that lister who posted that, and it is true. . .
I took on two voice students after my undergrad pedagogy class (which had as
an assignment to teach lessons and bring the student into the class for a
demo. That's how I got my one student. She liked it so much, she stayed on,
which is when I started charging her. She then referred the other student to
me.)
I'd like to point a few things out (that, in all fairness, you didn't know):
1) I went to undergrad music school AFTER receiving a BS in Mechanical
Engineering. ( I was in a Post - Bachalaureate program.) By the time I gave
my first voice lesson, I have been performing in public for 10 years in
bands, on stage, in theaters, and in recitals, not to mention session work
for radio and TV spots.
2) Both my students had studied before with other teachers, and both told me
I was the best teacher they had ever had, and that they learned more with me
than with anyone else.
I am writing this not to blow my own horn (I know that I am excellent
teacher, when I do do it. . . .I haven't done it in much lately as I am too
busy with other things.)
I am writing this to make note of the fact that the proof is in the pudding,
and a career on the Met stage or a PhD in vocal pedagogy does not a good
teacher make. Preconceived notions about someone's qualifications based on
whether they've got this or that degree from this or that university or have
sung on this or that stage are not necessarily to be relied upon. Results are
to be relied upon.
TinaO
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