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Heaven help me, I’m podcasting. Now in addition to reading my blog rants, you can listen to me ramble… If you’re a podcast nerd (as I am), you can subscribe to the feed and get updates whenever they’re released. Click here. If you want to listen to one of the first few audios, you can

Guest post by Lee Anne Myslewski “I’ll always love you, though, New York” is the final line of one of my favorite pop songs (The singer is Ryan Adams, for the record.) And now that we’re here, that line rings through my head at intervals – pushing through a crowded street, looking out of the

We’ve heard some exciting singing here on the west coast; probably more “big” rep (Verdi, Puccini, Wagner etc) than we’ll hear the whole rest of the tour. (No judgment, just an observation.) Great work from folks in young artist programs in San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Portland and more, as well as terrific singing from students

Stuck in the Seattle airport, waiting out a weather delay. Grant (Loehnig) is teaching us about Xhosa, the language he learned while studying abroad in South Africa. It’s a great language to sing in. The vowels are completely pure, like in Italian. And there are three different “clicks” represented by the letters C, Q and X.

Fourth in a series of audition season posts inspired by a recent re-reading of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. “When analytic thought is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process… But what is less noticed in the arts – something is always created, too.” How loathe we “artists”

Third in a series of audition season posts inspired by a recent re-reading of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. “No matter how hard you try to hang onto it, this stuckness is bound to disappear. Your mind will naturally and freely move toward a solution. Unless you are a real master

While I’m reviewing the last 100 applications, you may fill the hole left by my blog absence with this great audition season article by colleague and former WTOC coach Laurie Rogers: The Singer-Pianist Audition Relationship. :)

Second in a series of audition season posts inspired by a recent re-reading of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. ________________________________________________________________________ “Few people travel here. There’s no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own

First in a series of audition season posts inspired by a recent re-reading of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. ___________________________________________________________________ “Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed… To live only for some future goal is