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From:  Jeffrey Joel <JSJoel@c...>
Date:  Fri Apr 14, 2000  7:21 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] never again a singing teacher, was: fa


>About my experiences with singing teachers: I had
>three singing teachers, all women. The first one gave
>lessons at a music school, but had been an opera
>singer for about forty years. She had forty students
>when she started, and she sent away 37 of them: I will
>always be grateful that she did not do that to me! But
>she said: 'you are a baritone, and will never be
>anythign else', which I believed (by the way: she was
>a mezzo). After four lessons I was the only one left
>and she wanted me to take private lessons, which was
>too expensive for me. Then I had a sweet soprano, that
>was still studying at the conservatory. She improved
>my diction a lot, and tried to let me forget I few bad
>habits I picked up when singing as a bass in a choir
>(I am a high lyrical tenor!). We had a lot of fun, but
>I also learned to panic before starting to sing: there
>were so many things I seemd to have think about before
>you can start. I did not learn really how to support
>from her.

Maybe this just reinforces that women should not teach men?

As for myself, at age 53 I am slowly turning into a tenor. I was
originally trained as a low bass (and still have the low notes
most of the time). At my last lesson I vocalized down to a Bb below
a bass low C (Bb1) and up to a G at the top of the treble staff (G5),
which is nearly 4 octaves.



Bless Your Heart(s),

Jeffrey Joel
JSJoel@c...

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746 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa Margaret Harrison   Sat  4/15/2000   3 KB
764 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa Jeffrey Joel   Sat  4/15/2000   3 KB
769 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa sopran@a...   Sat  4/15/2000   2 KB
784 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa Jeffrey Joel   Sun  4/16/2000   3 KB
786 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa Margaret Harrison   Sun  4/16/2000   3 KB
798 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa sopran@a...   Sun  4/16/2000   2 KB
805 Re: never again a singing teacher, was: fa Jeffrey Joel   Sun  4/16/2000   2 KB

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