Voice and Body Integration

CONNECTION

Music is an act of communication. Without anyone listening it doesn't exist Perhaps we have all taken privilege of music for granted, writes the conductor. Only by taking it away do we realise how essential it is.

This Thursday!

Inner Workings: A Singer's Perspective Thursday, April 23 11AM - 12:15PM (CST) For the second installment in our Inner Workings series, COT's Staley Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya is joined by four opera singers to examine how full-time singing artists are uniquely affected by the current situation, what creative solutions are arising...

From Declan Costello - super ENT

Vocal anatomy and physiology - a guide for singers and other performers In this talk, prepared in collaboration with www.voiceworkshop.co.uk, I will go through the basics of vocal anatomy, and explain how the voice functions. A v...

Someone can disagree with a musical choice, or prefer a different timbre of voice in a role. Otherwise, take Previn’s advice. Perhaps more eloquently 😉

André Previn on being told he had no talent Our talk with André Previn spanned his more than half-a-century involvement with classical music, jazz, Hollywood and the Broadway stage. It's hard to…

This most certainly applies to the classical world. Things do need to change and grow.

Failing Our Singers: How a Demand for Ex*****on Kills the Freedom to Create From the time an actor arrives at a university or conservatory program, they're presented with a list of "don'ts," instead of a creative environment where it's

I’m glad we laugh and learn together

BBC Young Musician - Seven essential pieces of advice for young musicians - BBC Four Considering a career in music? You need to hear these podcast tips from Sir Simon Rattle.

New book out by Linda Kitchen.

Follow the path that has shaped Sue Bickley's wonderful career in Opera Lives - 10 days to go.

Pre-order - https://spiramus.com/opera-lives

Monday, 5 November - I may be a few minutes late. Please begin with alphabet circle action verbs and I’ll get there asap! Thank you.

So let’s repeat some arias and dig deeper.

Audition Oracle The Source for Opera, Choral, Musical Theatre singers and auditions

Fascinating!

Fascinating illustration of how your mouth pronounces words

Judy Murray at Empower Conference this morning. 👍👍👍

Note:
Atmosphere p**f
Delineation of focus
Images with every breath
Thinking!!
Action verbs everywhere!!
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Performance by Bryn Terfel, the Royal Swedish Orchestra and Evan Rogister, Conductor Performance by Bryn Terfel, the Royal Swedish Orchestra and Evan Rogister, Conductor

CLASSES AT RCM BEGIN ON MONDAY!
See you there. So here’s LB to get you thinking.

What is a Recitative? / Leonard Bernstein · Omnibus: "American Musical Comedy" How does a plot get furthered through music? In this clip, Leonard Bernstein explains the device of recitative. Bernstein demonstrates a scenario in the oper...

From the wonderful Luretta Bybee:

My small piece of advice to young singers as audition season starts from someone who has kicked around in the opera world for lots of years:

EVERYONE has an opinion - especially those you audition for. Do your work well - be responsible and respectful - but search your OWN souls to find your truth as an artist and as someone who is in charge of running your OWN business. You may be a round peg and someone you're singing for wants it to fit in a square hole. There are MANY roads to becoming a professional singer. Don't let anyone tell you their way is the only way or criticize one of the other roads. I have copious successful colleagues young and old who prove that theorem wrong. Listen and learn but don't blindly accept "advice" that tells you theirs is the only way. Lead with tact and kindness with those who might try and intimidate or manipulate you but go home with your self-esteem and integrity in tact. Sometimes the motivation behind that advice feels well meaning to them and they dont even realize it, but it can come from a place of unchecked ego and need in them - NOT in you. Remember, they'll all want of a piece of you if you're a success.
Lead with humility. That's how the truth in your performing gets through. Let that truth sing - the Music, the Love, the Divine that can flow through you. Tell your story but make sure it's your OWN. Advice and judgement come cheap, but nobody knows your story like you do. Get quiet and listen before you tell it to be sure it's the Truth, and then SING ON.

RESUME ADVICE-
From a brilliant conductor:

Young singer friends:
I have just reviewed at least a thousand resumés for consideration to audition for St Louis young artist positions in 2019 (and more await).They are very difficult to get through as there so many fine, sincere people. BUT PLEASE: not so much information. And these symbols that require the Rosetta Stone to interpret ^ * = etc., etc. And then “denotes”..... I honestly read every single one of them but having to scan down to some glossary or other gets very tiresome. Why not just list covers in one category or study covers or whatever else? The footnotes are just confusingly unnecessary. Give it some thought. Better a less populated page that is clear than cataloguing every single thing. Thanks❤️

As some of you leave to Travel new roads and create new dreams, please pause and hold this in your thoughts. Go be brilliant!

Fascinating!

Your body language may shape who you are Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident — can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for ...

Jon Vickers Shut up with your damn coughing! A performance of Tristan und Isolde where Tristan tells someone the audience who is coughing a lung up to Shut up !

The Vibrant Voice The Vibrant Voice Technique uses a small vibrating device applied to points on the head, neck and shoulders, and specific movements and sounds that will help you achieve release and increase vocal resonance.

Muscles remember - for good or ill.

VALUABLE ADVICE. READ, AND READ AGAIN.

The Lenore Overture - Follow Kellow One of the most respected figures on the international opera casting and competition circuits is Lenore Rosenberg, associate artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera. On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, Rosenberg gives a masterclass on Florida Grand Opera’s SongFest Masters Series. The class will be he...

Super resource!
HT Arlene Rolph

200 Contemporary Musical Theatre Songs for ‘Legit’ Sopranos & Mezzos A list of 200 contemporary musical theatre songs for the Audra McDonalds and Kelli O’Haras in your life.

Fascinating - whichever tools work for you. Fundamentally, IT IS HOLISTIC. Body and voice together.

How Broadway’s Most In-Demand Vocal Coach Kept Ben Platt, Neil Patrick Harris, and More Healthy | Playbill Industry leader Liz Caplan reveals her secret methodologies to keeping Broadway’s biggest talents at the top of their games.

Great opportunity!!

Leeds Lieder Young Artists - Leeds Lieder Do you love communicating words through song? Are you intrigued by the unique relationship between singer and pianist? We are inviting 10 duos to become Leeds Lieder Young Artists and immerse themselves in our 2018 Festival. There will be opportunities to work closely with either John Mark Ainsley,?...

Simple and true.

The Scientific Reasons Why You're So Tired the Day After a Concert It can take several hours for the body to settle down and the day after the concert, and one can feel very flat as adrenaline leaves the system and hormone levels return to normal.