What are performance skills? More than preparation
Aren’t PERFORMANCE SKILLS just “GOOD PREPARATION”? Someone recently answered a question of mine about what performance is: “I believe it’s all about preparation,” he said. Well, that depends on what you mean by preparation. Of course, a successful...Why study performance? (Part II)What’s posture got to do with it?
What have posture and performance got to do with each other? I recently watched a concert at my daughter’s school. I was impressed with the children’s enthusiasm and willingness to go on stage and perform the pieces they were preparing for an upcoming eisteddfod. The...
Why study performance? What is it and why should I care?
PART ONE: What IS performance? Why do musicians and teachers dismiss it as something to think about “later”? Or dismiss it as an irrelevant word, or a word they don’t even understand? When I started studying performance, my singing teacher was puzzled and asked...
Roger Federer for Singers
Is Federer relaxed, as Jim Courier says, and what can we, as singers, learn from watching him? One of my singing teachers used to tell me to RELAX as I was rushing off from my lesson back to the conservatorium for a class. It always had the opposite effect from what...
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