Recently added articles from Journal of Singing:
New Year's Resolutions
Jan 01, 2009; ... TEMPUS FUGIT. Isn't it curious how each successive year seems to pass more quickly than its predecessor? This phenomenon once was explained to me as follows: A three-year-old child passes twenty five percent of his lifetime waiting to reach the age of four, while the wait from age fifty to ...
Text, Subtext, Context
Jan 01, 2009; ... FOR YEARS, I have laid a large (perhaps disproportionate) share of societal ills and intellectual degradation at the doorstep of television. Now it appears that I have another demon to battle-the Internet. The older medium, I maintain, has fragmented our attention spans into eight minute time ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Jan 01, 2009; ... To the Editor, I HAVE been giving A bit of thought to the matter of the production of La traviata by the Skylight Opera Theatre as noted in the September/ October 2008 Editor's Commentary by Richard Dale Sjoerdsma. I have been privileged to work with some creative minds, some which even ...
Vocal Vibrato: New Directions
Jan 01, 2009; ... VOICE TEACHERS OFTEN BELIEVE that only two types of vocal vibrato exist: good and bad. In fact, there is a plethora of different vibratos. Some of these have been described (sometimes as flaws) in treatises going back several centuries with quaint names such as flatté (flutter), balancement ...
An Essay on the Evidence Base of Vocal Hygiene
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION The voice is nothing but beaten air Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Naturalinum Quoestionum (bk. II) DESPITE THE FUNDAMENTAL SIMPLICITY of the vocal mechanism, it holds extraordinary power. While an expressive, confident, engaging voice is extremely useful in ...