It’s not often that someone can say that they have made a real
contribution to the art that he or she serves. I am both proud and humbled to
add my own human touch to the enduring and ever-evolving art of Bel Canto
singing, as my teacher did before me and his teachers did before him. My gift
to the art of Bel Canto is the message of storytelling.
Bel Canto is a singing art that can only
be imparted from teacher to student over time and intensive study. There has
never been a book or an instruction manual that could adequately describe the
necessary steps to sing with VOCAL FREEDOM the Bel Canto way, and there never
will be.
In the historical manner of study, the Bel
Canto instructor would have the student sing an aria or other song until he or
she brought forth a particularly beautiful phrase sung with crystal clarity. At
that point the student was instructed to repeat that word or short phrase over
and over exactly as he or she had just done it, in order for the student to
become accustomed to singing so clearly. Intensive work was also done with
regards to pronunciation of words, particularly the vowels in the words. The
teacher continued to guide the student with these disciplines until the student
finally achieved the ability to sing clearly and consistently without vocal
difficulties every time– until he or she had reached VOCAL FREEDOM.
