In a message dated 6/30/2002 11:29:59 PM Central Daylight Time, MezzoNotte@e... writes:
> Hello all, > > Just piping in after a most intense week - my first "Richard Miller in > the Midwest" workshop. Amazing! I'm already singing better and have > been able to apply stuff in my studio over the weekend with fabulous > results. It made my brain hurt to get so much crammed into so short a > time, but it was well worth it. > > > Vicki Bryant mailto:MezzoNotte@e... > Naperville, IL >
I'm curious, what did you learn that was so mind-blowing seeing that he has several books out there and a column in NATS every month? I'm not implicating anyone, but I always find it dismaying that teachers are blown away by this stuff when the information has been out there for sometime.
A few years ago I attended a one day workshop he gave at Northwestern (from which I cited in my recent article in NATS JOS). You would have thought he was telling the audience that the world was round when they all thought it was flat, yet his materials had been out there for years. If you have very little knowledge of physiology, acoustics, anatomy, and/or physics going in, or have not read his texts, it is (in a sense) a matter of being blinded by science. Shouldn't we all be somewhat familiar with this stuff and therefore should not be so mind-blowing?
I especially was dismayed by the local NATS president getting up at the end of the workshop raving about how she was going to radically overhaul her teaching based on this one day when all it consisted of was a detailed description of the breathing mechanism, spectral analysis and a teaching that consisted of don't lift your chin.
Randy Buescher
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