When you’re a singer, criticism comes with the territory. But learning to keep it in perspective by considering the source and evaluating its veracity will help you stay focused on what’s most important: creating your art.
Living composers’ careers aren’t much different from a singing career. They too must market and promote themselves. They get their fair share of rejections. And they often have day jobs to support their musical habit. British composer F L Dunkin Wedd shares all of this and more as he discusses his music and his career.
A new series of books hopes to shed light on the techniques needed to sing in styles outside of the classical genres. Arguably, the most uncomfortable part of the learning process arises when new information conflicts with previously held beliefs. When this occurs, we are forced to make a decision: change direction (enthusiastically or begrudgingly), remain skeptical until thoroughly convinced, or simply resist, dismiss, and stick to your guns.
While wrapping up this December issue and collecting photos of 2014 highlights from summer programs for our upcoming January issue, I received a panicked e-mail from a program director. “Burning
Breathing is the foundation of good singing. Are you doing everything you can to ensure your breath fully prepares you to make the most beautiful sound possible? If not, what is holding you back? Find out that and more here.
By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. For a true singer, singing is life and as essential as breathing. That
By Mark Stoddard, author of Marketing Singers, a business and marketing guidebook written specifically for singers. Many books have been published on the many studies on the lives of
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing When someone in our industry talks about musical style, just what do they mean? It is easy to
By Angela Peterson Winter Let’s face it, rejection stinks! But it’s also inevitable. And, it turns out, the one thing that can keep rejection from sinking its painful talons
According to the Deutscher Buhnenverein, the association of German theaters and orchestras, there are 130 opera houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, almost twice as many per capita than in
By Carol Kirkpatrick, author of ARIA READY, The Business of Singing Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes. Watch your attitudes, they lead to words. Watch your words; they
By Angela Myles Beeching This week I’m re-appreciating a great life lesson I received years ago from my good friend and colleague Michael Gaskins. We used to work together
