by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | 100 hints on singing, Acting, Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, breathing, Cloud, Means not ends, Meeting, Mindfulness, Music, Singing, voice
100 days. 100 hints on singing. No. 46. Those moments when you walk on stage to a dais or a mike, or a lone piano are portentous. You don’t need to be alone in them. You can walk embraced in the love and memory of all those who wish or have wished you well,...
by admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Breath, breathing, Creating space, Gesture, Meditation, Mindfulness, Presence, Singing
A self-blessing. Place the palm of one hand, fingers pointing inward, lying easily and slightly cupped on the xiphoid process just under your sternum. Then turn your hand gently upward. Give yourself a little lift, fingers and hand staying in place. You’ll breathe...
by admin | Mar 9, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Baseball, Lovemaking, Means not ends, Pitching, Singing, Uncategorized
Ready. Don’t aim. Fire. That’s the title of today’s blog. It might be the most widely read of my newsletters thus far. We’re moving into the bedroom. But wait, first some action in the infield. Dwight Gooden, the ace pitcher for the New York Mets, had won several...
by admin | Jan 28, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, ballistic, ballistic movement, Singing
In Stanley Kubrik’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the chimpanzees, actually humans in chimp costumes, are at play in a boneyard. With one mighty downward stroke, one bone, or another resting upon it, is launched upward. It rotates, hangs in the air and morphs from bone...
by admin | Dec 4, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Posture, Singing
The vocal tract — the lips of the glottis to the lips of the mouth — is some pretty important real estate. Over the course of a career, a voice professional might spend enough on its tuning, care, health, and maintenance to purchase some more tangible real estate,...
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