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July 2025 Issue

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Performing Outdoors in the Summertime: How to Keep your Cool

Performing outdoors during the summer season can be a wonderful, fulfilling experience. It can also be hot, humid, rainy, buggy, noisy, or distracting. Or all of the above.


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Singer’s Library: Summer Reading 2025

Now is the time when those of us who compile summer reading lists start looking for good books to page through. Whether in search of an easy beach read, musical inspiration, or in-depth study, this column offers three different options of new publications for summertime perusal. 


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How to Turn Performance Anxiety into Creative Excitement: Building the Bridge Between Fear and Flow

It’s true that anxiety and excitement can feel identical in the body. But energetically, they carry completely different frequencies. One wants to escape the situation; the other wants to be deeply present.


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Diva Diaries | Entry 9: A Diva’s Guide to Nourishing Your Sparkle

A couple months ago, I shared some of my go-to tools for handling the infamous “what’s next?” questions. Today, I want to chat about what happens after that moment. How to keep your creative spark alive when your calendar is empty.


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The ARC of Auditioning: Confidence vs. Self-Worth in the Audition Room

The ARC of Auditioning is a new monthly column offering behind-the-scenes insight from a seasoned casting director. With practical wisdom and candid reflection, Duncan Steward will bridge the gap between classical/conservatory training and the real-world audition process.


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What I learned as a teacher preparing my students for the CS Music competition

I’ll be honest, I started teaching voice the way a lot of people start teaching voice: I found myself with a MM and at a year-long YAP, I didn’t have a ton of time or work experience except singing and knew that I could make a little extra cash teaching voice.


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Diva Diaries | Entry 8: The Power of Posting

You are one post away from changing your life. And I don’t just say that for effect. For the longest time, I was terrified of social media; not because of trolls or strangers on the internet. No, I was scared of people I knew seeing me “try.”


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How to Transition from Perfectionism to True Excellence in Performing

Similarly, there are artists who give “perfect” performances and those who give “excellent” performances. Technically, these performers might be at the same level, but the experience they offer is like night and day. That’s because perfectionism and excellence come from completely different places and lead to completely different outcomes. 


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An Interview with Adolphus Hailstork

One of the most prolific and admired living American composers, Dr. Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III, continues to write music that is thrilling, poignant, and introspective. It was my honor to visit with him in early April. 


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Tool Time 6: Choosing and Cultivating Your Team

This tool time is going to talk about a very important aspect of vocal hygiene: the voice team. I hope by the time you finish reading through this article that you have an idea of where to look for help and how to maintain good relationships with all the stakeholders in your voice. 


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