The leading tenor may get the girl, but the character tenor gets the laughs and so much more. Steven Cole explains what makes a character tenor.
Can’t figure out why you’re not getting ahead? Receiving conflicting advice? Here are some tips for sleuthing out the truth and putting it to use.
Raising money from foundations isn’t easy, but several funders want to support artists just like you.
I have a love-hate relationship with e-mail. I love it because it makes communicating with others so much easier! I hate it because my ever-overflowing inbox is also ever-overwhelming. But
New Conductor Bites Off More Than He Can Chew Conducting the Oslo Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko won excellent reviews for his season-opening performances, but comments the 37-year-old Russian later made to
“A lot of the students have gotten the message that the song is as much about the text as the music. But sometimes they interpret the text by itself, not
At a workshop at Manhattan School of Music, two recent alumni spoke about the challenges and surprises they faced in transitioning from students to professionals. They each described how
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I have been adjudicating many auditions like the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Auditions plus many others for
We want to hear from you! Welcome to a new series on the Auditions Plus Blog. We want to share your experiences with other singers, teachers, and performers. So if
Perhaps singers should heed Abraham Lincoln’s famous quotation, “You can please some of the people some of the time . . . but you can never please all of the
In a recent article on two new books about Fred Astaire (NY Review of Books, “They’re the Top“), Arlene Croce closes with this summary of his extraordinary career, writing that
“A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.” Harvey Mackay Start off this new school or
