2003 – Page 4

Cancellation of the 2003 MacAllister Awards The prestigious MacAllister awards have been cancelled for this year according to a recent announcement made by executive director Elaine Morgan Bookwalter. She assured

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You may hear the applause when you sing, but do you really know the power of your voice on the people for whom you are singing? Does your audience even know what you just did for them? Do you know the power of yor voice on your own body? Here are some new ideas to consider that may cause you- at the very least- to run the practice room the next time you don't feel well .

The IRS has the definition of “professional” all laid out for you— sort of! Here are some ideas to help you figure it out, sparked by a question from a singer who has just attended a summer pay-to-sing.

Brazilian tenor, Ricardo Tamura, graduated from the University of Sao Paulo with diplomas in geology and physics and worked as a computer science teacher and chess instructor. Although he loved to sing, there was no early indication of a possible operatic career.

Edoardo Müller loves singers. When you are on stage, he smiles at you as if you can do no wrong-and suddenly, he's right! Your voice floats out like never before and he beams his pleasure!

Offstage, he is even better as he coaches and gives you cadenzas and ornaments that perfectly suit your voice and temperament and tells you why your particular instrument is so unique and wonderful.

CS loves to highlight opera companies created by singers that are making a big impact in their communities, creating jobs and building the art form. Here is a special company that nurtures and helps singers blossom.

Erstwhile earth goddess, with knowledge of past and future, returns to give CS readers her answers to pressing questions, this time on a practical matter of biographies that work

Singers and teachers who understand chiaroscuro and who know how to produce this kind of a tone in themselves and in their students are very rare. Here, a noted voice teacher explains the balance of bright and dark singing, applying it to other aspects of life as well.

As an enthusiastic explorer of repertoire, Thomas Hampson generously contributes to the enlightenment of audiences and colleagues alike, enriching our cultural knowledge as very few artists do.

Not everyone can move to New York, or wants to! Is there life for a singer who chooses to live outside the big cities? Well, many, many top singers choose to do so and do so quite sucessfully. Here's a singer who is making a wonderful life in her local community. Let's hear from you!

One of our older survey respondents wrote in with a thought-provoking account of her experience attending a particularly problematic university. CS is including her story here with editorial comments interspersed. It is critical to choose your school well! The writer brings up many points singers need to take into account when looking into school.