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From:  "Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
"Lloyd W. Hanson" <lloyd.hanson@n...>
Date:  Thu Jan 18, 2001  11:46 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Studying Vocal Performance In College


Dear Axwell and Vocalisters:

After 44 years as a teacher and musician (it took me 20 of those
years for me to consider myself a musician) I feel well paid and I
think I have been a good servant to the art of music.

The other night my wife and I awoke to a new recording of an
orchestral work that was not identified clearly when our clock radio
came on because of a mis-setting. We lay there quietly listening
each not knowing the other was awake. Finally one of us exclaimed
about the wonder of the work we were hearing and the other said "I
did not know you were awake". It is a magic thing that music can
speak so directly and deeply and cannot be explained with words.

So, I, and all of you, serve this art We become its mentors and its
masters while we remain its servants and its soul. More money would
be nice but we are, in my opinion, well paid.

--
Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011

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