>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...
Circulation Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging
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