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...Jan 28, 2022 | Singing and Self Blog
Jana and Juan, Vancouver Island, October 2021 Too personal? I don’t know. I don’t care! My eldest daughter is getting married tomorrow, January 29, to the Love of her Life, the most lovely JUAN (pictured above). This is extremely exciting and wonderful...Nov 19, 2021 | Singing and Self Blog
Opera class bonfire, November 13, 2021: A community of singers (photo: Claude Wood) I took a bit of a hiatus this past week, as my students were performing their two evenings of opera excerpts and I was right in the thick of it. It was our first performance in front...