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The Alto’s Lament
“I’m a soprano,” she said to me after she did a pitch-perfect imitation of John Denver. Even though she could sing siren vocalises up to mid-soprano range, soprano was not her home on the range....
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The Last Five Years
My website design is almost five years old. That’s got to be 10,000 in cyber years. Back in the fall of 2008, I had a dormant website (a gift from my dad) and a bubbling career. I wanted to highlight...
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My Happy Apps
I am selective about my smartphone apps: No to Angry Birds or Tetris, yes to Couch to 5K. No to Minecraft, yes to Vine. I only keep apps that I really like and use frequently. These apps make me happy!...
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The Seven, Vol. 4: Dansko Mystery Solved
1. You recall my Missing Danskos. Well, I accepted that they were gone, even though I wondered where they’d gone to. I bought a new pair of Kates on eBay, for $29! After I won the auction, my daughter...
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My Sunken Chest
All of my voice students spend part of each lesson warming up the head voice register and the chest voice register. I learned this as part of my Somatic VoiceWork training. It’s not optional, it’s...
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“They want me to sing sixteen bars a cappella,” the student says as we start to prepare her for the audition. “What?” I ask. “No pianist?” “No music at all, just me singing,” she says. What I’m...
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