May 13, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Me and my gals: Magic Flute Opening Night, May 6, 2022 (from left: KB, Midori Marsh, Jamie Groote–photo Anna Ronai) So…not sure if I should say it, given all the talk about boundaries in recent posts. But I can’t help myself: I am so proud of these...May 6, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
A fine line 2.0 (Kimberly Barber, May 2022) Last week’s post seemed to generate some interest amongst readers (thanks for writing, folks!), so I thought I’d keep riffing on this business of line-drawing in the teacher-student relationship. It’s a...Apr 29, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
A fine line (April, 2022) Singing is vulnerable stuff. And as it turns out, teaching singing is pretty vulnerable stuff too. Teaching and learning are such deeply integrative processes that it is sometimes difficult to discern where the line between them is. The...Apr 8, 2022 | The Disowned (Singing) Self
Photo by Bo Huang (2019) We can only dance with the one who brung us. Namely, ourselves. Try as we might to be someone different, wedge ourselves into a box that seems more palatable, our voices will always resist this crime against nature. I know, because I have...Mar 25, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Captured from Jana’s wall, October 2021 We are nearing the end of term and my students are getting into performance mode. This is the phase where I am reminding them to Show Up: where I ask them to truly come as themselves, open their artist hearts and let us...