To be frank, I would be shocked if I paid to study with a teacher who hadn't
bothered to read up on voice issues, and hopefully understand them. There
are many traits that a successful teacher must have, and I'm not going to
get into a flamewar through any flippant jokes about those who can do etc.
However, one of the traits that I would expect from a teacher is that they
have some good background knowledge of the subject. In this case, I would
expect most teachers to have a knowledge of Miller's writings, whether they
openly advocate his methods or not. To my mind, your last post seemed to
be almost touching on the aspect of the assumed superiority of western literary
society versus non-written cultural knowledge, ie tribal story tellers.
Whereas there is now a more open attitude to this, I would not expect a
tribal story teller to be trying to teach Miller's vocal methods. Miller's
target audience is inherently a part of the western "written word" culture,
and whether or not individuals respond more to the spoken word than the
written word, I would expect that the majority of voice teachers are capable
of reading, and even understanding Miller to a greater or lesser extent.
The argument here is that people who really should be aware of this body
of work haven't bothered to do the basic groundwork for their craft, and
then when somebody stands up and lectures on material that has been in the
public domain for five years they all think it's new. As far as I can recall,
Randy is not the biggest advocate of Miller on this list, but he is aware
of the work. He's done his research and reading and like me he probably
expects that all teachers should do this.
Colin Reed, tenor
Newark, UK
>-- Original Message --
>To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com>
>From: "Caio Rossi" <rossicaio@h...>
>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:33:35 -0300
>Subject: Re: [vocalist] Richard Miller
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>Randy has all it takes to be a "limit-setter", but he shouldn't expect
the
>same from those who were born or have decided to be "sect members". To
do
>what he expects, people would have to read Miller, UNDERSTAND his books,
>AND... read other books, do research, etc, etc.
>
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