Browsing Archive: June, 2012

To Blog, To Facebook, and To Teach Children

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Saturday, June 23, 2012, In : Musician's Life 
I was ashamed to see how long it had been between my last two blogs.  I've been enjoying creating and using the Studio's Facebook page, and blogging has kind of taken a back seat.  Anyway I've had a recent reversal in my thinking about teaching voice to children.  A mom who was raised with the Royal School of Music Achievement program was not satisfied with the training another teacher was giving her daughter.  I had just become aware of RSM/Carnegie Hall program because NATS has recently for...
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Don Giovanni vs. The Flowering Tree

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, In : Hearing Music 
I’ve seen two operas in the past few weeks, and both were beautifully performed, Mozart’s Don Giovanni by the Atlanta Opera and John Adam’s The Flowering Tree by the Atlanta Symphony. One was an utterly satisfying experience, and the other quite a bit less so. Yeah, well, it was Mozart wasn’t it? Well, yes, it was, but John Adams is a very fine composer who has written some operatic works that look as if they will stay in the repertoire – a pretty major feat without having to...
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