Relatively inconsequential disciplines repeated with consistency often lead to great achievements over time. Emotional intelligence is one …
How to Make a Good Impression in the First Rehearsal
Freelance singing necessitates a continuous cycle of first impressions. For some, meeting new people and tossing one's self headlong into …
How to Network to Generate Legacy Projects
The ice clinked in their glasses while the evening settled in around the screened-in porch. Music was gently wafting from the kitchen into …
Talking “Sweets by Kate”: “You don’t need anyone’s permission”
Editor's Note: My unending thanks to guest authors Molly Pinson Simoneau and Michael Oberhauser for interviewing, writing, and editing this …
Revolutionize Your Studio: Use Infographics!
I hope most of you are familiar with TakeLessons. I was just having an interesting conversation with Natalie over there after seeing this …
in performance: Stunning La Bohème at Minnesota Opera
I have been deeply pondering the subject of opera and relevancy recently given my eavesdropping on the Opera America conference (via …
“If I sleep, who’ll give me the moon?”
Never Sleeping By Daniel Felsenfeld, special to The Sybaritic Singer ‘If I sleep, who’ll give me the moon?’ —Albert Camus, Caligula …
Autism, new music, and making a difference
What do you think of when you think of autism? For many people, the first thought is of aloof, broken, emotionless individuals - perhaps …
in performance: DSM Symphony Goes “Beyond the Score” with Berlioz
Leonard Bernstein famously said of the Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op 14 (1830), "You can become a nervous wreck playing this symphony; …