Oct 6, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
The love of the thing (sourced on Snappa.com, October 5, 2023) Some reflections here in the afterglow of a powerfully authentic and inspiring visit to our campus last week by Shad, Laurier alum and rapper extraordinaire. Too often, creatives stay in their...Sep 29, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
“Outside the opera house” (uploaded from Snappa.com, Sept. 28, 2023) There are moments these days when I feel as incongruous as this country guitarist outside an opera house–which is not an opera house as I know it–where maybe he belongs more...Sep 22, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
It’s been a bit of a tricky start to this academic year (understatement). For starters, a colleague died suddenly on the first day of classes, someone who had worked for us for many years, and who worked alongside so many of the students I care for in my opera...Sep 1, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
Riffing in an improv session at the Shenandoah CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute, July 2023 (photo LD Brown Arts) My blogging has been sporadic: forgive me, dear readers. I have been up to all kinds of new tricks, including riffing, death metal growls, jazz stylings and...Aug 4, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
Stay in your lane (sourced on Snappa, August 3, 2023) One of the gifts of aging is that we start to see more clearly all the ways in which we are hindered from being our fullest self. Among the most pernicious of society’s constraints is the admonition to...Jul 21, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
We are family Dance Jam at Shenandoah, July 2023 (video by Amanda Kind) It’s been a while since I’ve put fingers to keyboard and waxed philosophical on all things voice, singing and identity. To be honest, it was a pretty challenging spring and early...
