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Kavbar's Blog · 7M ago

Singing and Swinging (a golf club…)

I will write a series of posts about various connections of singing to golf (and other sports). Here is a terrific article for starters! Observations: Why opera and golf are birdies of a feather
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Big Voice or Loud Voice?

Hearing a loud voice is like being in a small room, with overpoweringly bright lights. Hearing a big voice is like being in a large room, with many interesting lighting options.
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Wolf on YouTube

The first of six segments, providing the complete Italienisches Liederbuch of Hugo Wolf, has been uploaded to YouTube. I am joined by my excellent colleagues and friends, soprano Faith Esham and pianist J.J. Penna, in this recent recital at the Schubert Geburtshaus in magical Vienna–the very place w
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Link to “The Focus Vowel”

My friend, Daniel Shigo, writes/compiles an extensive, inspirational and helpful blog called VoiceTalk. I recently read Daniel’s article on “The Focus Vowel,” which relates to methods of my own teacher, Margaret Harshaw. He is quite accurate in his comments about her teaching. We would usually vocal
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Salt

His use of the language was surely better taken in by native German speakers. For me, it was not easy to understand much of the Sunday morning sermon in Vienna’s spectacular Augustiner-Kirche. The priest spoke considerably faster than those who had delivered sermons on previous Sundays. Come to thin
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Active Passivity

Just as the performing artist must not confuse relaxed with collapsed/disconnected–or engaged with tense/effortful–do not think for a moment that activity is always about obvious motion. Technique and imagination are able to empower each other when the artist confidently “gets out of the way” and al
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

About Practice

In looking through some old documents, I ran across the Practice Guide that I give my students at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. It offers direction on what good practice is, and how it can helpful. A portion of this document was posted on this blog a couple of years ago, but I think
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Recital Retrieval

An informative article in The New York Times (January 20, 2011) caught my eye. The title is “To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test,” reporting on a study that is detailed online at the journal, Science. The gist of the study was this: Three groups of students were asked to read a passage [.
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

True Imagination

I remember reading a comment by golfing great Severiano Ballesteros. In his playing days, Seve was known for an unmatched ability to get out of trouble on the golf course–hitting shots from unusual lies, parking lots, trees, etc. (Of course, one must first get into trouble to be able to get out of i
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Kavbar's Blog · 1Y ago

Extreme Balance

Liberal, conservative. Democrat, Republican. Blue, Red. Us, them. Right, wrong. Wasteful, managed. Uncontrolled, contrived. Offensive, defensive. Public, private. Left, right. Hot, cold. Up, down. Forward, back. Bright, dark. Loud, soft. Left brain, right brain. Spontaneous, planned. Allowing, makin
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