Thanks Lloyd and List, These are all excellent suggestions for my dilemna. ALthough my first reaction is anger and therefore I want to go in and shred the guy.........ultimately this is not best for my students. They need to be encouraged and shown how to maneuver through this. I think it is wise to address with him how we can work together to build his choir, and also I need to somehow gently hold him accountable to the way he has been maligning my students and studio, and how they are perceiving his attitudes. As far as his objections, I think the strongest one is that the aesthetic he holds to, ie. the Cambridge Singers, he believes is not compatible with the vocal timbres that my students are exhibiting. He realizes that my students are building strong solo voices, but he calims they are not able to blend with the other voices in the choir. This baffles me because I know that my students should be able to apply proper singing techniques throughout all of their singing situations, so I'm really not sure what is going on. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps because my students sing with blended registers instead of falsetto, there is a richer harmonic their voices produce because of more compression in the folds, which therefore pierces through the sounds of the other voices............just a thought. Anyway, thank you all again for your support, input and encouragement. Mary Beth F.
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