Recently I was asked a question that comes up every few months about when a child should start taking voice lessons.  In this case the child is six-years-old, loves to sing, and stays pretty much in tune.  Her mom wondered if her child should have voice lessons.  I did not have the opportunity to hear the child, but I would hesitate to suggest lessons for a child that young.  Even though today children start voice lessons much earlier than the 16 years that used to be the standard, I really t...
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It's been probably 25 years since the last time I visited Brevard.  Inge was still teaching there in the summers, and I was young and foolish enough to slide down Sliding Rock.  I'm not sure that I ever saw an opera there, and when I realized that they were doing Alcina, getting myself there was more about seeing a Handel opera that I've never seen than really having high expectations.  Well, no matter how high my expectations might have been, they would have been justified by the production ...
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