Dear Mary Beth,
I do not know of any Australian singing teacher who
immerses himself in aspects of physiology as American
teachers seem to. (Yet Richard Miller did not.)
OK, if Randy is in the field of throat problems, that is
a different one to teaching singing and I guess it is to be
expected that one so involved would slant his interest toward
the theory of singing, but the big overriding fact is that one
teaches himself to sing with the assistance of the singing
teacher. If one is not prepared to sing and adapt in his own
attempts to arrive at a useful technique, he is destined to
operate in some sterile vocal environment obtained under
the auspices of his teacher. A dead end.
A teacher who obsesses with vocal apparatus while actively
discouraging vocal in dependance in the student is also doing
the student a great disservice.. Reg.
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