Aug 5, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Face 2 Face (retrieved from Snappa.com August 4, 2022) I hope that folks don’t find this thought triggering, but I’m kind of done with 1:1 teaching. I don’t mean that in a blanket kind of way–it’s the way that most of us in the classical...Jul 15, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog, The Disowned (Singing) Self
Spine and Ribs (Snappa, sourced July 15, 2022) Having just returned from a stimulating (if sometimes exhausting) time of teaching and learning with young singers and experienced teaching colleagues from across the country and the US, I have been thinking often about...Jul 8, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog, The Disowned (Singing) Self
Dance with the one who brung ya (Snappa, accessed July 7, 2022) As I’ve been teaching these past few weeks at Opera Nuova here in Edmonton, a few themes have emerged that I know are universal for singers. I know this primarily because I have experienced them...Jun 24, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Getting your hands dirty (Snappa, June 2022) I’m back in person at Opera Nuova this year for the first time in three years. So much feels different, and yet so much is the same as always. There are singers who are keen and wide open for learning, and others who...Jun 24, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Sweetgrass braid (Kimberly Barber, June 2022) This week I took a trip to Toronto—aka The Big Smoke—to witness my niece’s stage debut as the Witch in an adaptation of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and at the same time was able to connect in Real Life (radical!) with my...Jun 17, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
The 60’s revisited (Kimberly Barber, Jordan Station, ON, June 2022) As I was touring around the Niagara region last weekend, tasting wine, biking the backroads and generally enjoying life, I happened upon a plant nursery in Jordan Station that featured this...